When I see images of flight recorders been handed over to Malaysians and at the same time - reports that rebels refusing to give them away

The guardian article - well, only slightly accurate, and mostly quoting rumors. You could write one like that yourself if you just got the assignment and spend half an hour on the internet researching the subject

Those things fly directly into the engine.

This rapidly expanding ring, when hitting the aircraft, can be more effective than an equivalent fragmentation warhead: the ring's effectiveness decreases as 1/R, rather than 1/R2 for fragments.[2] Portions of the aircraft intercepted by the expanding ring will receive a continuous cut through the skin

US missile tracking imagery showing the ground launch from near the Russian border.

It is easy to call Russians reports false. But you cannot call false the obvious - complete silence in the Western media about them in the last 24 hours. This by itself is a very telling and disturbing fact. I was naive to think that at least some media is at least somewhat independent.

We are hiding the facts, as you hopefully can see.

Well, if you know the truth but do not want to share - means you do not like what you know, right?

Bu seriously - why they are hiding the facts? 'Trust us people we know we are doing the right thing' does not work, not after Snowden.

The biggest liars are politicians, regardless of nationality.

On Monday, Dutch forensics experts and representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe finally examined the four refrigerated rail cars holding the remains of the crash victims, which were taken to Kharkiv, Ukraine, for proper identification. As President Obama said in a brief statement on Monday, returning the remains to their families as soon as possible is “the least we can do.”

But it is far from all that must be done. The facts about the shooting down of the plane must be established by trusted, international experts. The most likely finding, for which American and other Western officials say there is strong evidence, is that the jetliner was brought down by rockets fired from rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine. That would require not only ground-to-air missiles but also the expertise and equipment to guide them, raising the possibility of assistance from Russia itself. Russia has denied any such role, and its military officials have pushed a competing scenario, inculpating Ukraine.

These are very serious charges. Innocent victims are sadly common in conflicts, but whoever unleashed a lethal missile not knowing how to distinguish between a military and a civilian plane is not only irresponsible and stupid, but a war criminal. The evidence lies in those same fields that the separatists have effectively sealed off for days. Though they surrendered the flight recorder boxes to Malaysian officials on Monday, their delay gave them plenty of time to hide or destroy incriminating evidence.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia issued a statement on Monday saying, “Everything possible must be done to ensure that international experts can work in safety at the crash site,” and Russia joined in a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding full access to the crash site and condemning the downing of the plane. But then Mr. Putin has said many reasonable and conciliatory things since the Ukrainian crisis began, and he has done nothing to rein in the thugs who have seized control of parts of eastern Ukraine, or to block the fighters and sophisticated weapons supplied them from Russia.

In that same statement, Mr. Putin also sought to transfer blame to Ukraine, saying the tragedy would not have happened if Kiev had maintained a cease-fire. And he sanctimoniously declared “no one has the right to use this tragedy to pursue their own political goals.” That is not terribly convincing coming from Mr. Putin, who has cynically encouraged a dangerous secessionist conflict to grow until it became a threat to the world.

The comments from European leaders have been clear and tough, but words will count for little unless European Union foreign ministers enforce more stringent sanctions against Russia if it fails to cooperate in an immediate and independent investigation of the plane crash, and take tangible measures to curb the rebels. After the downing of Flight 17 and the brutish handling of the victims, it is time for Europe to hold Mr. Putin to his words.

This incident was likely a mistake.