[Uncle Chip]

If Ukraine already knew the Rebels had BUK’s, why were they allowing civilian aircraft to fly over them?

If the Russians knew that civilian aircraft flew through that corridor then why did they supply SAMs to the rebels there???

After all within 3 minutes the plane would have been in Russian air space.

[Uncle Chip]

And then we have this:

Hours before the crash, Russia had announced its own airspace restrictions near eastern Ukraine, closing below 32,000 feet the route Flight 17 would have taken through Russia.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/17/world/europe/maps-of-the-crash-of-malaysian-airlines-flight-mh17.html?_r=0

Did the Russians give the SAM operators an okay to shoot down anything below 32,000 feet??