At this moment by daughter , along with 27 students from the high school at which she teaches here in Japan , is flying over Russia via Japan Airlines to London .
My flight from London to Mumbia took me over Syria last year.
and all the news agencies will discuss is the stories of those lucky few who were almost on that flight, about how it is a "tragedy" (as if it was not intentional), and call it a "crash" (as if it were a mechanical failure or an act of Nature).
Couple errors in the article.
Most airlines avoid Syria now, the article mistakenly implies the opposite.
And that 31,000 no go ceiling above the Donetsk warzone was a decision made originally by Ukraine, not the FAA. The FAA simply relayed the decision made by Ukraine.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/height-of-ukraine-no-fly-zone-faces-scrutiny-1405639624
The conflict is in a tiny part of Ukraine, it would have been easy to route around before.
This BBC article has better info I think.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28364306
I think the powers that be better take another look at all the neat stuff ISIS grabbed from Iraq and rethink their flight routes.
Some time only once.