Tom Riddle® schreef op 26 mei 2018 10:41:
Was it safe to fly over Ukraine?The Dutch Safety Board (DSB) has suggested there was sufficient reason to close the airspace above eastern Ukraine because of the conflict.
In September 2016, an international team of criminal investigators said evidence showed the Buk missile had been brought in from Russian territory and was fired from a field controlled by pro-Russian fighters.Flight MH17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was travelling over conflict-hit Ukraine on 17 July 2014 when it disappeared from radar.
www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28357880In the months leading up to the crash, the conflict in Ukraine had expanded into the airspace and a number of military aircraft had been shot down
Although the area where the jet crashed had a no-fly zone in place up to 9,754m (32,000ft), the airliner was flying above the limit at 10,058m (33,000ft).
The airspace over eastern Ukraine was busy with commercial flights that day - 160 planes flew over the region.The flight tracker Planefinder shows how busy the airspace was in the 48 hours leading up to the disaster:
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