Russia’s federal air traffic agency Rosaviatsia has said that three days ago Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council closed the airspace over eastern Ukraine because of the so-called “anti-terrorist operation” that Kiev conducts in the region.
Earlier a representative of Donetsk People’s Republic said that civil aviation planes could not fly over Donetsk and Lugansk regions. He added that all necessary traffic control and navigation equipment was damaged.
“Dispatching support of all passenger flights is being conducted from Kiev. How this plane could be there - is not clear,” a representative of Donetsk People’s Republic said.
http://rt.com/news/173616-malaysian-crash-ukraine-border/
Thanks. For a second I thought a plane might have been shot down, or something.
“http://www.flightradar24.com/#47.72,35.42/6?&_suid=140565760790903508767372239138";
Current FlightRadar 24 looking over Ukraine.
Notice there are NO commercial aircraft over Southeastern Ukraine, but several are flying over Crimea (Russian Controllers)
Again, I’d like to know WHO routed this aircraft over Donetsk and the war zone.
Was it MH’s dispatchers? Did the pilot enter a course change?
DID UKRAINE’S CONTROLLERS route it over the fighting??
Until the Black Box info is revealed, we just won’t know the truth. We KNOW the rebels shot it down. What we don’t know is what was it doing there in the first place??
WHY the dramatic course change compared to the July 16th flight, taking it directly over contested territory?
Central Queensland University accident investigation and safety specialist professor Geoff Dell:
...”the airline should never have been flying over the country.
“From as soon as the conflict started they shouldn’t have been going anywhere near it,” Dell said.
“They should’ve shifted to alternate routes, like all the other airlines seemed to have done.
“You just don’t go anywhere near it unless you’ve got no alternatives and there’s always the alternative of not going.”