The a/c was reported as just south of Krakow when the engine was shut down. This suggests to me that the route was over the former Russian republics and then Afghanistan, not very near Dubai or anywhere else in the middle east. Some of you may have noticed there are some very high mountains on this route called the Himalayas. So here we are happily cruising along, half asleep when the co-pilot shouts out "Captain, captain, the oil pressure is falling on another engine now, what are we going to do, I can see some white snow covered lumps ahead and we can't cross them on 2 engines because because we can't maintain MSA". "Don't worry son, we can always land in Kabul". A suitable diversion for an A380 or any other civilian a/c?
