Also how come the USA IR satellite saw the missile plume. And the AWACS over Romania watched it happen?
A Romanian news agency (Mediafax) reported on Friday July 11 that NATO will analyse the onboard data from the two AWACS deployed in Romania and Poland from the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine. According to the quoted source (a NATO official) the two AWACS were on service at the time and data has been sent for analysis, but "due to the distance from the service area and the crash site we don't expect that any of the AWACSes to have records of the accident"
NATO analizeaz? datele de zbor ale avioanelor AWACS din Romānia ?i Polonia, īn tragedia din Ucraina - Mediafax