Posted on 07/18/2014 3:53:54 AM PDT by Biggirl
Nearly 300 passenger planes were scheduled to fly over the Ukraine yesterday. Some 290 commercial flights continued operating over the war zone, with just 10 fewer aircraft entering Ukrainian airspace than normal, according to European air traffic control centre Eurocontrol.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
DAMN!!
And I thought I was ON to something..
“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.”
The pic posted by HanginJudge proves you are wrong, though I don’t know if it’s the pilots fault or if he was sent on that path by Ukrainian air flight control.
It proves nothing of the sort —
As of yesterday 300 flights were scheduled to follow that route.
A route directly over Donetsk and Luhansk, as shown in the map?
You’re lying.
What part of this do you not understand:
Singapore Airlines plane was flying just 15 MILES away when MH17 was shot down over Ukraine ... and 55 aircraft flew over danger zone on the SAME DAY
The article makes the same mistake you did.
The entire country of Ukraine is not a warzone.
When you say that flights north of Crimea must fly over Donetsk, that is not even close to being true.
The map posted above proves you are wrong; 9 of the 10 last flights managed to go north of Crimea without overflying Donetsk.
When the article says that 290 flights flew over the warzone, that isn’t even close to being true either, they are labeling the entire country as a warzone.
Then go argue with the article --
The fact remains that until yesterday the airspace over Donetsk was not a NO FLY ZONE.
The NO FLY ZONE was over Crimea and southeastern Ukraine compelling pilots to fly north of there -- and north of there is Donetsk.
Najib said the aircraft flight route was declared safe by the International Civil Aviation Organization.
The International Air Transportation Association had also stated that the air space that the aircraft was traversing was not subject to restrictions, he said.
Besides, “Malaysia Airlines has confirmed that the aircraft did not make a distress call.”
Still, a former head of airports security group BAA suggested that many airlines including Malaysia Airlines had continued to use the route despite warnings because it was shorter and cheaper.
“It is a busy aviation route and there have been suggestions that a notice was given to aviators telling airlines to avoid that particular area,” said Norman Shanks, who is a professor of aviation security at Coventry University in England.
“But Malaysia Airlines, like a number of other carriers, have been continuing to use it because it is a shorter route, which means less fuel and therefore less money,” he told The Associated Press.
Hours after the disaster, Malaysia Airlines announced all European flights will henceforth take an alternative route.
“The fact remains that until yesterday the airspace over Donetsk was not a NO FLY ZONE. “
Yes, and isn’t a scandal?
I think we’re coming to closer agreement.
The war zone is actually a really tiny area within Ukraine, and quite easy to avoid.
The vast majority of paths north of Crimea do not overfly the war zone.
It’s good that they are avoiding it now, but it seems common sense to not overfly a warzone.
Did they really fly over it to save money? I’m skeptical. How would they choose a path pefectly over the warzone? Look at that map to see what a small area it is.
Was that pilot decision or were they directed there by flight controller? I don’t know.
The route flown by the downed Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH17 was one approved by the International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO) and had been used by Malaysia Airlines for years, said Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai. Liow, who spoke at a press conference at the Sama-Sama Hotel here on Friday denied that MAS had used the route to save on fuel costs.
“The route was an approved path that had been used for ten years by MAS and other aircraft, and 15 out of 16 Asia-Pacific countries use that route which has been determined by the ICAO. There was nothing informing us that the route should not be used. For many years, we have taken the same route and many other countries have also used the same route. In fact during that time, many other aircraft were using the same route,” said Liow.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3182101/posts?page=34#34
Yes, and it isn’t it a scandal that they didn’t avoid direct overflights of Donetsk when it became a warzone?
Who declares an area a war zone and who declared this area a war zone???
What’s the relevance of a declaration?
Everyone knows there is big fighting there.
It’s common sense to avoid flying directly above warzone.
Right?
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
You didn’t answer my question — why wasn’t it declared a NO FLY ZONE by the same group that declared Crimea one???
And why did they shoot it down when it was almost out of Donetsk airspace and into Russian airspace??
I answered your question to the best of my ability with the latest information.
The Ukrainians chose to raise the flight levels instead of making it a fly zone after their transport plane was shot down.
Why? I don’t know.
Why did they shoot it down when it was almost out of Donetsk territory into Russia?
That’s not an established fact.
The most popular theory I see bandied around is the rebels shot it because they thought it was a military transport plane.
But the Ukrainians have same type of missile and accidentally shot down civilian plane in 2001.
I guess more truth will be known later.
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