[FR_addict]

“The FAA does not control Malaysian Airlines, Finn Air, India Air, Singapore Airlines, nor any of the other 15+ international carriers that had flights through that area that day.”

No one said the FAA controlled non-American airlines, nor was it implied that the FAA controlled them. However, the FAA should have taken the threat more seriously and made it a mandatory prohibition for US airlines. Instead, they relied on the US airlines to voluntarily stop flights over the area.

[Uncle Chip]

What that indicates is that the area over eastern Ukraine was not a danger to commercial aircraft or atleast not serious enough to make it mandatory.