Rebels who shot down Malaysian Plane thought it was a military aircraft they filmed the crash amidst laughter

After the ill-fated Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down today,it has emerged that the Ukrainian rebels who shot down the plane filmed it and their militia commander Igor Strelkov, tweeted after the crash”

In the area Torez we just hit down Antonoc-26, it’s lying somewhere in the mine “Progress”.‘We warned you – do not fly in “our sky”. And here is the video confirmation of the “bird dropping”.‘Bird fell near the mine, the residential sector was not disturbed. Civilians are not injured.’

At the time, he apparently believed he had shot down an Antonov-26 military plane of the Ukrainian Air Force Plane. As soon as he must have realised the grave mistake,he deleted the tweet and video  

According to Mailonline, the Laughing rebels filmed the plane as it crashed, bragging ‘That was a blast – look at the smoke!’

A voice believed to be that of Strelkov – dubbed ‘Igor the Terrible’ – announces:

 ‘The plane was hit‘Look at those black spots, these are the parts, flying … it was a blast … look, look, black smoke!’

Another rebel, laughs and says:

‘It was worth bringing this thing, wasn’t it?