Quote Originally Posted by Ronin13 View Post
So SRG's emotion-filled rants aside (no offense), the general consensus is that Russia (or agents from) downed the aircraft in order to place blame on Ukraine? Or was this a really horrible case of mistaken identity and someone (RUS or UKR) shot it down thinking it was an opposing aircraft? Either way, my question still remains: WTF is Malaysian Airlines doing flying over an active combat zone? The only non-military flights that ever flew over where I was in Afghanistan were flights going into and out of either Kabul or BAF.
Airlines fly over regions with active ground-fighting all the time. I haven't checked, but I'd be willing to bet there were a number of other airlines flying over that region (within range of the SAM's) earlier that same day.