MH17: Russian state TV broadcasts crudely fabricated forgery as evidence

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Originally Posted by BBC Russian state TV has broadcast what it claimed to be a photo of the moment Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian fighter jet. But many commentators dismissed the image as a "crude fake".

Link to the story: http://ift.tt/1xBrufD



The picture has been quickly debunked as a forgery by many sites. Some are quoted directly in the BBC article, other notable ones are listed here:

Metabunk

Bellingcat

WhatHappenedToFlightMH17.com



One major and obvious flaw that the mainstream media don't readily mention (because they assume it would be too difficult for general public to understand, perhaps?) is how HUGE the Photoshopped planes are on the faked picture. They are monstrously, ridiculously gigantic! The purported MH17 appears over 4km (!!} long over the ground below - some 70 times (!) the size the plane would have been in a real satellite image. It even dwarfs the entire landing strip of the Donetsk airport, which can also be seen in the doctored picture (the thin white horizontal line roughly halfway between the 'MH17' and the 'fighter jet').



In light of this, you might be amused by this quote (courtesy of TASS) from Ivan Andriyevsky, the first vice president of the Russian Union of Engineers (emphasis mine):

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Originally Posted by Ivan Andriyevsky We see a space shot made from a low orbit. Such photo shots are typically made in air and ground surveillance purposes. Coordinates on the photo hint that it was made by an American or a British satellite. We have thoroughly analyzed this photo to find no signs of fake.

Why would Russian state TV broadcast such an obvious and easily debunkable forgery? Can they get away with it? What do you make of Ivan Andriyevsky's professional opinion? ... Discuss!