Why Was Reuters Taking A Photograph Of MH17 In Amsterdam Just Before It Cashed?

Just hours prior to MH17's crash, a passenger named Cor Pan is said to of uploaded a picture of MH17, taken through the window of the airport in Amsterdam just prior to boarding, with a message joking about "if the plane disappears, this is what it looks like", referring to the recent MH370 disappearance.

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When MH17 crashed hours later Cor Pans facebook picture & post became viral MSM news as this was to interesting a story for them to pass up. Several different MSM sources posted stories about Cor Pan's post in the hours/days that followed, most of which include the image he took of MH17 just prior to boarding.
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What's interesting is that several news agencies as part of this story posted a higher resolution version of seemingly the same image. The higher resolution version of the image is credited to Reuters, and most brushed it off as a cleaner version of Cor Pan's tragic image.

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While all might seem well and fine, there are several issues/oddities with this.

First off if it is the same image as Cor Pan posted, then how did Reuters get a higher resolution version of it, if the only image posted by Cor Pan was posted with much lower resolution (you cant simply clean up a low res image like that), and his phone/camera with the original image was on the plane with him when the plane crashed. From this we can come to a fairly strong conclusion that the Reuters image isn't simply a higher res version of Cor Pans photo.

To further confirm this, if you look very closely at the 2, although both extremely similar, they are not the same image. There are several differences in the images themselves that show they are taken from a different position, with a different zoom, at a slightly different time and from a slightly different vantage point or angle (can you spot the differences? Lets make a game out of it and post what you find in this thread).

So now that we know that Cor Pans image & Reuters image are different, this brings up a bunch of questions...

Since the Reuters image isn't the same as Cor Pans posted image, if Cor Pan did take a 2nd image which Reuters decided to use instead, how did Reuters get it if it was never posted (and the source of the image had crashed and been destroyed)?

Since Reuters couldn't of gotten their version of the image from Cor Pan, it means they must of taken it themselves. Why was Reuters taking a picture of (a at the time non-eventful) MH17, just prior to it taking off from Amsterdam, where just hours later that exact plane leaving from that exact airport would become international news?
Note: This reminds me a lot about the MH370 MSM pilot interview just prior to it vanishing.

Why are some major MSM sources passing the Reuters version of the image off as if it is the same as Cor Pans, if they are in fact different images and one isn't actually his (why not just cite the original facebook image posted by Cor Pan)?

Why if the Reuters image is just them taking a routine image of a random plane is it that the image also happens to be almost identical to Cor Pans image (almost like Reuters went out of the way to try to match Cor's image as close as possible, so much so it can't be by chance)?

Anyways I just find it odd and it brought up a lot of questions so I wanted to get some input on what peoples thoughts are.

Also gotta love the fact that Malaysia Airlines was already scheduled to decommission all of their Boeing 777-200ER airplanes (including M9-MRO (MH370) & M9-MRD (MH17)) by the end of this year (to be replaced by Boeing 777X's later this year). Go figure.



Last Edited by TruthNow88 on 07/25/2014 03:09 PM