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File this under "unsettling coincidences": Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, a Boeing 777, made its first flight on July 17, 1997, 17 years ago to the day, according to a tweet from the New York Times’ C.J. Chivers.
That detail, at a time when the world is hungering for any new information about the passenger jet that crashed in eastern Ukraine around noon local time Thursday, will no doubt attract the attention of numerologists and conspiracy theorists, if only because there are so many 17s and 7s: Flight MH17, a Boeing 777, first flew on 7-17-97 and crashed 17 years later, on 7-17-14.
Chivers attributed the date of the plane’s first flight to an unnamed “aviation official.”
Given the enduring mystery of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared over the Indian Ocean on March 8 and has still not been found, any curious detail about MH17 will be magnified, although the crash site itself is known and investigators will presumably have access to its black box data.
There is also the mystery of Malaysia Airline Flight 653, which crashed on Dec. 4, 1977, after a reported hijacking, the details of which are still unknown.
Whatever information emerges about MH17 will likely provide fodder for speculation. Late Thursday, RT.com reported that MH17 was following almost the exact route that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s jet had traveled shortly before the crash, according to Interfax news agency reports.
RT.com quoted an unnamed source who reportedly told Interfax, "I can say that Putin’s plane and the Malaysian Boeing intersected at the same point and the same echelon. That was close to Warsaw on 330-m echelon at the height of 10,100 meters. The presidential jet was there at 16:21 Moscow time and the Malaysian aircraft - 15:44 Moscow time... The contours of the aircrafts are similar, linear dimensions are also very similar, as for the coloring, at a quite remote distance they are almost identical."
Putin was on his way from Brazil, where he attended the BRICS summit, to Moscow.
The U.S. government later announced that MH17 was brought down by a surface-to-air missile, based on evidence that such a missile system had been tracking the plane before it crashed.
In all likelihood, speculation over MH17 will continue regardless of what officials eventually conclude. The crash of TWA Flight 800 off the New York coast in 1996 is still being debated ?