What kind of equipment was the was the tracker using? Binoculars? When I mention tracking it would be from an Air Traffic control system with IFF capability. The buk does have IFF capability but with knowing what MH17'smode 3 code was. The crew just screwed up and shot down an innocent airliner.
Sometimes we just have to drop the conspiracy crap and just admit somebody just screwed up. People got killed because of it and should they be held accountable.
I’m sure they were binoculars but they were the same binoculars probably in the same hands that were used earlier in the week to identify a military transport flying at its ceiling height of 21,000 ft.
When the same binoculars successfully identify a plane flying at its ceiling of 21,000ft earlier in the week can’t identify another plane later because it is flying way above that ceiling along an international flight path, then a competent commander with even a miniscule regard for innocent lives would hold his fire.