There is not hardly a damn place flying in this globe that is safe. Common decency is to not target civilian aircraft and these damn rotten communists knew that 100's of flights from many countries use this pattern. They knew they were killing civil aircraft at the 32,000 standard flight path. Don't be so dumb. Typical of Russia, they don't give a shi!.
I also read those BUK systems pick up the identifier pings all passenger planes have so they don’t shoot them by accident. So I don’t know what to guess on that, they fired anyways “cause it had spies on it” as the rebels claimed or it was planned shoot down to blame on Ukrainians and it backfired on the Ruskies. ??