Originally Posted by jetsam
Malaysian incompetence again
- grossly unjustified criticism of Malaysian. If there is any 'incompetence' it was in the failure of the intelligence world to adequately anticipate a 'rogue' shoot down and follow who had access to what and to communicate this to the aviation authorities. Elsewhere it is stated that the 'top' of the prohibited civil flight area was FL320 and this was based on the 'airspace closure' up to FL240 (ie a 33% 'safety barrier' - obviously now seen to be quite inadequate). If you look at FR24 there were several other major international carriers in the same predicament at the time and just - lucky.
You should edit your post title.