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it’s definitely a strange story. Very fishy
Why did he suddenly feel 'uncomfortable' flying the route that many jets had flown in the previous hours and turn directly into the dangerous part of the no fly zone.
The routing has been commented on, but only a little. Who sets the route? Air traffic control? Does the pilot have a choice?
So it’s THEIR fault?!
Something stinks about this. Just like something stuck about the last Malaysian airliner incident.
Paging Lois Lerner’s IT person.
I think your map there is showing the airspace over Ukraine AFTER the shootdown — not before.
Next month I am scheduled to fly from Zürich to Hong Kong. This article make curious and I went to a site (Flight Aware) that track flights for Swiss International and they have been flying south over the Black Sea for the last couple of weeks.
The Malaysia flight has been flying pretty consistently over the Ukraine, venturing pretty close to where the flight was shot down. Today’s flight went WAY south, skirting northern Turkey.
A Singapore Airlines passenger plane was flying just 15 miles away when flight MH17 was shot down.
This new data emerged as security experts warned that with thousands of Britons unwittingly flying over the Ukraine each week and one said: ‘It could so easily have been one of ours.’
Someone mentioned, I think here at FR, that Malay Air flew over the war zone to save gas. They are in or close to bankruptcy, so chose the shortest route in spite of the dangers. The regular route would have cost them more for fuel.
Lawsuits from MH370 are pushing them toward or HAVE pushed them into bankruptcy. Now they’ll be out of business forever.
Anybody want to buy my two tickets on Malaysia Air?
No IFF + off course would prima facie indicate a hijacking.
After 9/11/01 no responsible government can afford that risk, especially for an aircraft originating from a Muslim nation.
This article is rubbish. And so are a great many of the comments. This plane was flying a perfectly ordinary route, and was avoiding the southern route as it WAS covered by a notam cautioning pilots away from the Crimean penninsula as well as the Sea of Azov.
MH-17 was directly on the great-circle course from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down. Anyone can prove this with a globe and a piece of string. (Hold one end of the string on Amsterdam and the other on Kuala Lumpur, pull it tight, and see where it crosses the Ukraine.)
Ok..this could get very ugly..
Because the flight path over that area could of been directed by Ukraine flight control...
So why directed in to a hot area not on normal flight path?
To try to trigger some incident for political gain?. testing defence?
Ok..this could get very ugly..
Because the flight path over that area could of been directed by Ukraine flight control...
So why directed in to a hot area not on normal flight path?
To try to trigger some incident for political gain?. testing defence?
And of course if you listen/watch RT you learn that the tape of the “separatists” bragging about having shot down the plane was doctored according to a specialist they consulted and that the pictures of the launcher from which the shot supposedly came wasn’t taken where it was reported to have been - according to RT the whole tragedy is a Ukraine plot to discredit Russia - strange indeed.....
Putin’s FR fanbois are busy dreaming up some way their heartthrob isn’t to blame for this mass murder.