I’ll ask again — who declared it a War Zone???
We know that the Crimea was officially declared a NO FLY ZONE.
If Donetsk was a War Zone where no planes were supposed to fly then why wasn’t it declared a NO FLY ZONE by the same body???
“If Donetsk was a War Zone where no planes were supposed to fly then why wasn’t it declared a NO FLY ZONE by the same body???”
Investigators into Thursday’s crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 will scrutinize a decision by Ukrainian officials this week to set the height of their no-fly zone over conflict-torn eastern Ukraine to 32,000 feet—when many ground-to-air missiles can easily surpass 40,000 feet.
Flight 17 was flying around 33,000 feet over the restricted airspace before it crashed, officials said. After the crash, Ukrainian officials expanded the no-fly zone to all airspace above the region.
Investigators are going to want “to hear how they determined that the risk was acceptable. [Ukrainian officials] should have done a formal risk assessment,” said air-safety consultant John Cox, a former union crash investigator and safety official.
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On July 1, Ukraine advised pilots to not fly below 26,000 feet over the region. On Monday, Ukraine said a Russian missile took down a Ukrainian military cargo jet flying at 21,000 feet, and the government increased the restricted airspace to 32,000 feet.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/height-of-ukraine-no-fly-zone-faces-scrutiny-1405639624