passenger airliner, in this case a malaysian passenger airliner on purpose thinking they were shooting at a bomber of some kind, a military plane? that s the head scratcher here. analysts are trying to figure out what else could they have been shooting at. there is one kneery that there may have been a ukrainian military plane in the area. these weapons are not necessarily infallible. they are radar guided. what satellites detected was first the radar being turned on. then almost instan tan kwously the missile being fired. was it a fault of the system, of the operators who probably don t have as much training as the russian forces unless russians were controlling the weapon. nobody knows it for sure. it very well could have been an accident. every military analyst we are talking to said in a situation like this there would be no