...”WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY DOING FLYING OVER AN ACTIVE WAR ZONE??”.....
That was my first question way back thread as well. Some have said it was the pilots decision, who are given the authority to determine such.
The black box’s will be able to determine much in that regard.
PROVIDED, of course, that the KGB (or whatever it’s calling itself these days) hasn’t ‘scrubbed’ or altered any of the data on it.
It’s an international airline route that everybody flies.
Who the hell are the Donetskians to declare that their little piece of dirt is sacred and no one can fly over it???