[Biggirl]

Long Title:

"THREE HUNDRED passenger planes were scheduled to fly over Ukraine on day MH17 was shot down... despite warnings to airlines about "serious risks to safety"

[knarf]

The plane shot down was above the restricted altitude and had traversed almost the entire west to east span of Ukraine ... THEN someone decided to shoot it down.

To me ... suspicious ... zero is Malaysian, and runniung faster away from getting caught ... these days

[relictele]

Hindsight is 20/20 but this was really the first thought I had when hearing the news...’Why are they flying over a (potential) war zone?’

[samtheman]

'It’s up to each individual nation, each individual airline how much risk they are going to accept.'

And in the case of Malaysia, they have no reason to worry about air safety. I guess it's official now: Malaysian Airlines is run by cretins. Book your tickets today!

[SMARTY]

Short title ‘Russian Roulette’

[Uncle Chip]

There is a NO FLY ZONE to the southeast over Crimea forcing planes to fly north of there.

So if planes are going to go east and west they have to fly over eastern Ukraine and those mindless thugs in Donetsk.

So all this blabber about it being the pilot’s fault for flying over “a War Zone” is hogwash.

[SayNoToDems]

So to whatever degree the airline and/or the crew were unwise to use that route they surely weren’t alone.

[HangnJudge]

From zerohedge...

Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Is flight MH17 to Obama what the RMS Lusitania was to Woodorw Wilson?

What We Can Learn From Woodrow Wilson’s Great Blunder The Case for Staying Out of Other People’s Wars

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2005/04/jim-powell/what-we-can-learn-from-woodrow-wilsons-greatblunder-the-case-for-staying-out-of-other-peoples-wars/