Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf View Post
There was no motivation or anything to gain by the rebels shooting down a plane.
Yeah but isn't that making the assumption that they wanted to shoot down a civilian plane? In the leaked audio (not sure if that has been proven or disproven) they seemed very surprised that it was a civilian plane.

A week before this one, pro-Russian militants shot down a Ukrainian military plane and bragged about it, took pics and videos.