So horrible..first MH370 disappears and now this..I dont understand why this plane was allowed to fly in an area that is known for shooting down aircraft
Well, one it was the shortest route, and that saves a ton of fuel, which to a financially strapped airline means a lot of cash kept, and two, up until today no one there was shooting down airliners, and three, many other airlines are flying over the Ukraine/Russia on a daily bases.
Still, I’ll be that will be stopped REAL soon.
Can you imagine being on a say, Stockholm to Singapore flight right now? “Uhm, ladies and gentlemen, this is the captain speaking... Uh, traffic control has advised us to take a more Southerly route this morning, so we’ll be flying over South Africa... Our landing time will be correspondingly longer...”