[Uncle Chip]

Scroll down in the Daily Mail article and you will see the No Fly Zone and that zone does not cover Donetsk. It is further south over Crimea.

[caww]

Sorry...but with or without warning....you don't do stupid things like fly over a heavily involved conflict zone with both sides firing Grads and heavy military equipment......

Good grief!... common sense has been lost by those who imagine every decision has to be “ordered” time and again and repeated at length, time and date...before an action is tabled or carried out.

The pilot went into a known war zone with heavy artillery going on all week from both sides......it was an active war zone.