Why would a commercial airline even risk flying over a region where there is an armed conflict and where an Ukrainian jet was shot down only yesterday?
Why would a commercial airline even risk flying over a region where there is an armed conflict and where an Ukrainian jet was shot down only yesterday?
Why would a commercial airline even risk flying over a region where there is an armed conflict and where an Ukrainian jet was shot down only yesterday?
Once again. This isn't an official war zone and all airlines were still using this route as it is one of the most attended air routes between Europe and Asia. This stopped now of course.
Why would a commercial airline even risk flying over a region where there is an armed conflict and where an Ukrainian jet was shot down only yesterday?
High-level flight over low-intensity conflict zones is usually pretty safe. Most anti-air weapons utilised by such insurgents don't fire that high and in any case they don't need to engage anything that high as it is never a threat, unlike low-level military aircraft which are.
At least that is the logic by which any sane force operates under. Instead these morons just recently got hold of a Buk missile system and decided to operate it either without the means of identifying aircraft accurately or the proficiency necessary to operate the weapon system effectively, with the likelihood of it being a combination of both. Thus they simply locked on the first radar signature they happened to acquire and fired away.
TL;DR The rest of the world underestimated how obtuse these fuck-ups are and didn't give notice until it was too late.