Cause of MH17 crash by Dutch Safety Board

No but I had no idea of the specific details of where the missile detonated, etc. Thats why I shared the post. And actually I was surprised as I thought it was a heat seeking missile that took out a wing or the engines vs one with a proximity detonation.

SPC Erich Guenther - S400 is radar guided. They knew what they were shooting at, too. The targeting radar has the capability to determine aircraft type by the skin paint. Likewise, the commercial plane had it's transponder on, squawking that it was MH17 - a commercial flight.
Whoever pushed the button knew what they were firing at.
Part of me wonders if it was set to auto-target like the Iranian ADA system was. But there is no reason for them to have it set that way; nearly any aircraft that would have been in that area save maybe the odd helicopter would have been Russian.

1SG (Join to see) - Thanks for the info, I did not know any of that either. I pictured someone seeing a blip on radar and pushing the launch button.

SPC Erich Guenther - ADA systems have come a long way since then.
Part of what makes stealth work is not that it is invisible to radar; it is that it looks like something else.