“The Malaysians are asking for the people responsible to be turned over to a war crimes tribunal —”
Being in the business, and having spent several years as one myself in the past, the MOST “responsible parties” here are the Dispatchers at Malaysian Airlines HQ that OK’d a flight over a KNOWN WAR ZONE....
It is their JOB to know this stuff, pay attention to it, and to make routing decisions accordingly!!
...”Dispatchers at Malaysian Airlines HQ that OK’d a flight over a KNOWN WAR ZONE....”....
They’ve been making some serious errors of judgement...this isn’t the first time as we know. Additionally I understand they give their pilots room to make changes off course. It’s been said this pilot moved off course.
Either way.....the plane should not have been there in the first place. If you look at the flight maps before this incident...you see most planes directed around Ukraine.
Planes fly over Gaza and that’s a KNOWN WAR ZONE —