To the best of my knowledge international airlines had information that neither terrorists nor Ukrainian soldiers are not using high altitude weapons. In fact until that day no BUK missile was fired.
Analogous situation was during the war of Hezbollah with Israel in 2006. None of the military’s or fighting group would use high altitude weaponry.
On that day the Malaysian plane was flying several miles away from the territory where actual fighting was taking place. Pilots and the traffic controllers did everything possible to lead the plane outside of dangerous area. Unfortunately noone knew that terrorists where operating also in other regions…. And here the responsibility about passing information to IATA and other agencies is on Russians since they seemed to have the up-to-date information at that time.
“To the best of my knowledge international airlines had information that neither terrorists nor Ukrainian soldiers are not using high altitude weapons. “
That’s not true.
Only 3 days before the Malaysian flight was shot down, a military cargo plane was shot down at an altitude of 21,000 feet in this area. That is well beyond the range of manpads and should be considered high altitude.
Why are you using the word “terrorist”?
“Pilots and the traffic controllers did everything possible to lead the plane outside of dangerous area. “
This is also completely untrue.
They didn’t do anything at all to lead it outside of the dangerous area, the path is a straight line right over the center of rebel controlled territory.
The costs for a slight diversion around it would have been minimal — the warzone is a truly tiny portion of Ukraine.
There was no diversion at all.
Sending the flight over the warzone defied common sense and was partially to blame for the tragedy.