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pibakeryesterday at 8:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

It could be prevented by simply not flying over an active war zone, something airlines do all the times to prevent the exact same thing from happening.


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wafflemakeryesterday at 10:13 PM

Or Girkin not ordering the civilian plane full of people to be shot down. It was a civilian plane at 10km altitude with a transponder on. Really doesn't look like a jet on a radar.

And up to that point Russia wasn't known to supply the separatists with an anti air system and the crew to run it.

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jojomoddingyesterday at 9:00 PM

Airlines started being more sensitive to this after the 2014 crash