[fission_bait]

So far we know that somehow this flight was last tracked after crossing Ukraine's western border, then diverted from its original southern flight path, then led directly over the Donetsk conflict zone. Unconfirmed rumors of it being guided by two fighter aircraft.

Last week we saw their capabilities of bringing down high altitude aircraft when they shot down an AN-26 military aircraft using BUK missile system.

I wouldn't rule out the possibility that this was staged as a war pretext, have it intentionally shot down by separatists to gain support from the international community for the west's campaign against Russia..

Conspiracy theories aside, the big question is what was that passenger jet doing outside its flight path and directly over a known conflict zone? The USA has had the region flagged as no fly zone for all of its passenger aircraft for months.

[partyguinness]

A lot of victims from the Air India crash in 1985 died from drowning. In other words they were blown out of the plane by the bomb and were alive (maybe conscious) until they hit the sea...

[chode_smoker]

This one is sort of surreal with the lighting..

Strangely beautiful lighting.

[b0g]

the reasons are purely economical: safe fuel by shortest route. It's balancing risks vs costs.

It's about humans that don't know or want to accept that all humans underestimate the probability that things can go very very wrong.

I saw Brit. airways and France Airw. were avoiding the fight zone/ Ukraine that last weeks. The other Eur lines did'nt.
The best comment I read about this comes from Nassim N. Taleb: "the classical mistake of confusing 'absence of evidence' by 'evidence of absence ' "
it's not my words; you can find it on his tweet

fat tails, and the Turkey problem: basing decisions on few data.

[AlDente67]

ML is said to have pinched some pennies despite warnings from the US not to fly there. But who knows.

[ipxkor]

Fucking Nazi Ukrainе and their owners USA

[Trunkzdbz]

Morbid death in it's full glow, horrible to watch.

[Mialgo74]

Originally Posted by Kanda444 ↗

Great find!!

[SSCARZZ]

No selfies..?

[naria01]

Originally Posted by Hanze ↗

I'm not sure what happened- attempting to re-upload in this post.

See that dudes camera phone? That's where all the humanitarian aid the US gives is being used for... :/