Playing Russian Roulette in Ukraine
So no more Kiev route for the saddest of reasons. I can only assume there will be a restriction on Ukrainian airspace too.
Pilots try to anticipate threats using any available data, for safety's sake. Am I alone in thinking that considering the other large aircraft which have been shot down in Ukraine recently - the dangers of operating commercial airliners in this war zone were foreseeable?
It's the inevitability of it I find chilling. Is anyone actually in control and making decisions?
When you say to yourself now - 'commercial carriers have been operating passenger jets in an active civil war and were not deterred by two other large aircraft being shot down, they carried on despite that' - it sounds unforgivable.