Do you really think there is internet in the front lines? This is war there, not military exercise. They are under constant bombardment from Ukrainian artillery and air force. Also there is encircled Ukrainian army near and Ukrainian transport planes drop supplies to them too. There is no excuse, that someone allow airliner with 300 civilians to fly over war zone with intensive air battle, where An-26 and Su-25 were shot down. It doesn’t matter in which altitude it fly, in such circumstances it absolutely must not fly there. One side in war doesn’t guaranty safety, so it must not be there. Only question is, if airliner was there by accident, or someone intentionally send it there and risk lives of 300 civilians for some political bonuses, because he knows well, that such thing will happened during heavy battles.
It’s not about trigger-happy psychos. No one will expect airliner in the middle of air battles in war zone. Also IFF in TELAR only show if plane is friend or foe.
Airspace is 3-dimensional. Lower flightlevels have indeed been closed. Cargoplanes dropping supplies don’t fly at the altitude and speed. Plus, Ilyushins and Antonows are easy to distiguish from a large twinjet like the 777. As Swerve already wrote, it is nothing special to fly over a war zone. But then again, usually poorly trained rag tag militias don’t get their hands on high performance SAMs.
Condolences to the families.
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