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Re:Missiles Are Now the Biggest Killer of Airline Passengers by ibejoeb on Friday December 27, 2024 @12:12PM (#42523923)
According to the latest reporting, the actual flight deviated from the advance flight plan by hundreds of miles. I don't know the regs in that region, but I suspect that IFR flight plans must declare an alternate, and it's unclear if it was Makhachkala and, if so, why they crossed the sea instead.

That seems to have been the real problem. Russia was not anticipating airline traffic there. Sounds like there has been fairly active drone activity in that area.

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Re:Missiles Are Now the Biggest Killer of Airline Passengers by sfilmeyer on Friday December 27, 2024 @01:59PM (#42524966)
>That seems to have been the real problem

The real problem here is starting a war. In a more peaceful context, even being hundreds of miles off from your flight plan wouldn't have resulted in this plane getting shot down.

I get what you're saying, though. It sounds unlikely that shooting this plane down was done because anyone specifically wanted to shoot down this particular civilian plane.

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Re:Missiles Are Now the Biggest Killer of Airline Passengers by michaelcampbell on Saturday December 28, 2024 @09:54AM (#42531410)
> Russia was not anticipating airline traffic there

So there was no flight plan, or the Russians didn't read it?

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