Malaysian airliner shot down over Eastern Ukraine - Page 29

On July 18 2014 10:53 MoonBear wrote:

I am just going to cut off this speculation right here.

Malaysia Airlines confirmed that the usual flight route for the plane was earlier declared safe by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). While the ICAO previous put out an alert about the airspace nearby, their press release also states that the loss of MH17 occurred outside of the Simferopol FIR (the potentially unsafe airspace). The Malaysian Airline jet also wasn't the only plane nearby when this happened.

Additionally, the European Cockpit Association has said that the route taken was the usual route a plane would take from Europe to South East Asia.

It is pretty hard to shoot down a passenger airline and because planes have transponders their location will be known to military forces. Airlines also generally file flight plans in advance stating what flight path they plan to take. Additionally it is not uncommon for planes to fly over what would generally be considered "hot spots" through approved flight corridors because those are just the approved routes to take. Opening up flightradar24 right now you can see a whole load of planes flying over Iraq and Afghanistan to name but a few countries.

So this is not some money grabbing conspiracy or anything. The airline followed all the rules and everything seemed fine and unfortunately a terrible terrible tragedy has happened that no one saw coming.