gatt wrote:

Either that, or the value of multiple human eye witnesses in Russia (and
this forum, apparently) means nothing.

Witnesses are a terribly unreliable source of information. Many of the
quotes that made it into the newspapers for a local mid-air were in
complete disagreement with (1) the wreckage and (2) the RADAR "tape".

There was the lack of evidence of any fire combined with reports of "flaming
planes falling from the sky", the rather boring track of each aircraft on
RADAR as combined with "pilots fooling around at tree-top level", and so
on.

- Andrew