‘Bodies Rained From the Sky’
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It’s hard to imagine after all. You’re sitting at home when you hear a noise, and before you know what’s happening, a woman’s dead, naked body comes crashing through your roof and into your kitchen. That’s what happened to Irina Tipunova yesterday when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 exploded overhead. “There was a howling noise and everything started to rattle. Then objects started falling out of the sky,” the 65-year-old tells Reuters. The woman’s body is still inside, awaiting expert examination.
Tipunova isn’t alone. Bodies and other debris rained from the sky all over the tiny village of Rozsypne. “I opened the door and I saw people falling,” one 20-year-old says. “One fell in my vegetable patch.” The front of the plane landed in a nearby sunflower field, and emergency workers have been combing that field and its neighbors for bodies, the AP reports. By midday about 181 had been located. In other MH17 news:
- Russian rebels have been hiding their links to a Buk missile battery that may have shot down the plane, western defense and intelligence sources tell theGuardian. The Ukrainian interior ministry bolstered those cover-up fears by releasing a video purporting to show a rebel truck headed for the Russian border carrying a Buk missile launcher with one of its four missiles missing.
- There’s been significant speculation about why MH17 was over the area in the first place. The plane’s flight plan appears to have included a well-traveled stretch of airspace used by a host of other airlines in recent days, NBC News reports.
- Malaysia Airlines released a statement saying that the flight plan was approved by Eurocontrol. It also said that Air Traffic Control had ordered the plane to drop from 35,000 feet to 33,000 feet, and said that from now on Malaysian Airline planes would avoid Ukrainian airspace entirely.
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the last time i fired a civilian rifle for fun was in the spring of ’81. annie and i had moved into a little cottage in the woods and it seemed as if we were going to have some stability owing to my new posting. i bought a .22 and put a scope on it to compensate for my lousy and rapidly failing vision. i took it out back, the woods as it were, zeroed it in and found it comfortable and accurate.
out back there one day…i saw a couple of rabbits playing in a meadow. i sighted, fired and hit, right behind the ear…a great shot. it would have been a great shot if i hadn’t went over there to admire my work…realized it had been very good work indeed, one shot, one dead rabbit. and then a weird feeling started coming over me. i had no plan for the carcass, i wasn’t planning to clean and eat it, rabbit stew was not on the menu…i’d just shot that animal to see if i could hit it. period. i had a new gadget and was trying it out.
i gave that rifle away and had trouble looking at myself in the mirror for the next year or so. it’s one of those things i have to hope God will forgive me for, it’s not looking like i ever will.
when something is inexplicable we still try to make sense of it. i can’t help but wonder if this wasn’t just a bunch of guys with a new gadget to try out. the russians gave it to them, showed them little more about it than where the start button was and told them to “go get one.”
“great shot, jim….look at them bodies raining from the sky!”
Well done Pennyjane. I used to hunt, until the early ’70’s when I realized killing animals for fun wasn’t my cup of tea. Although I still own guns I don’t use them to kill. Target practice only.