We already know who ordered the shooting down of a passenger plane.
No one did.
Only a real idiot would think anyone did.
What motive? What benefit? None.
The idea that anyone there intentionally shot down a passenger plane is absurd. It obviously was a misidentification, an accident.
Same as when the Ukraine army shot down a passenger plane in 2001, same as when the USA shot down a passenger plane in 1998.
The fact is that it defied common sense to fly a passenger plane right over the middle of a tiny warzone where multiple military planes had recently been shot down.
If you want to look for blame, whoever sent it over that path would share in it.
The pilot, the airline, the air traffic controllers, and the country for raising the flight ceiling instead of simply diverting traffic around the small war zone.
Original response from Russians was the Ukrainians tried to shoot down Putin’s plane and hit MH-17 instead. No one bought it, and the evidence showed Russian military had command of that missile unit. Putin had that plane shot down and there are people who know that and 30 mil is a big temptation.