I'd say the chances are pretty good it was...certainly in terms of covering up what actually happened.
Why There Will Be Another MH17
There were 160 other flights over eastern Ukraine when the jetliner was shot down. When will airlines and regulators learn to fly out of hot spots that are multiplying?
Beyond the gruesome details of the missile strike that took down Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, killing 298 people, lies a scandal: Why were 160 commercial flights flying over the eastern Ukraine on that day?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/14/why-there-will-be-another-mh17.html