Originally Posted by
Sultan Ismail
I deduce from that Malaysian 17 was shot down by the Russians.
Maybe. That was the conclusion of an extremely-politicized investigation. Whoever may have been responsible for the shootdown itself, it certainly wasn't Russia that vectored the flight over the combat zone.
Frankly, I don't see how either warnings about these sorts of risks or procedures for avoiding them can be left in the hands of belligerents, who will inevitably have ulterior motives and, depressingly often, are willing to use innocents as pawns as they pursue their goals. The UN and the trans-national regulators need to step up.