MAS has been effectively bankrupt for many years and for good reasons
(it is absolutely ****, I flew it once and vowed never to set foot on
it ever again).

When an airline is in that situation anything can happen.

The pilots and other staff it can attract and maintain are severely
limited leading to a brain drain. The maintenance budget is going to
get cut to the bone. They are going to consider carrying cargo that
other airlines would not touch with a barge pole. Crew are going to
consider routes and other means to save the company money etc.

It is tragic but you have to ask yourself why did these people choose
to fly with this airline? Some of them already had experience of
relations and friends disappearing on MH370 with all of the lies and
subterfuge surrounding that.

At some point people really have to take responsibility for their own
actions.




On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:14:17 -0400, HomeGuy
"Home"@Guy.com wrote:

Was Flight MH-17 Diverted Over Restricted Airspace?

07/17/2014

While there are various questions that have already emerged from what
was supposed to be Ukraine's "slam dunk" proof confirming Russian rebel
involvement in today's MH-17 tragedy, perhaps one just as gaping
question emerges when one looks at what is clearly an outlier flight
path in today's final, and tragic, departure of the Malaysian Airlines
Boeing 777.

Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis
Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked
by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass
safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the
Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight
overhead Donetsk.

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defau...%20paths_0.png

Why is the diversion from the traditional flight path and passage over
the highlighted zone a concern? Because as the following map from the
WSJ shows this is precisely where the restricted airspace is.

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defau...ir%20space.png

So perhaps before coming to "certain" conclusion about the involvement
of this rebel or that, the key questions one should ask before casting
blame, is why did the pilot divert from his usual flight plan, why did
he fly above restricted airspace, and just what, if any instructions,
did Kiev air control give the pilot in the minutes before the tragic
explosion?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-0...icted-airspace