Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
@tdracer
For the industry, I would hope that the lesson learned by airline management, and perhaps even national authorities, is to give war zones a wide berth due to the lethality of modern weapons.
Adequate, tried, tested & documented procedures already exist for use by national authorities to give protection to civil traffic in areas subject to hazardous activity and are executed daily in most States including Ukraine. However in this case these were not adhered to in a manner sufficient to protect all CAT transiting the zone.