It was in the early dark morning, my mommy woke me up and shocked me with another Malaysia Airlines tragedy. "Poor MAS. This is another one. Its plane was shot down in Ukraine. All perished" my mommy said.
Since the cause of the crash was shot down, I thought no one would blame Malaysia Airlines for the tragedy like they did when the disappearance of MH370 was a hot topic but I was wrong. Some people still blamed MAS for the crash because MH17 and other MAS flights fly over a wartorn area.
"Why did the plane flew over a wartorn area?"
"MAS just wants to save fuel and money".
"Should we trust MAS again?".
blah blah blah etc etc etc.
Why don't these people ask these questions by changing the word 'MAS' to any other airline company too such as Lufthansa, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Aeroflot any other airlines that have flights that used to fly over eastern Ukrainian airspace too?
Moreover the battlefield in eastern Ukraine was also considered safe by ICAO. So why only blame MAS?
This blaming is so unfair. You think MAS and MH17 pilots really wanted the plane to be shot down? It was not only MH17 that flew over Ukraine at that time. Singapore Airlines and India Air were only miles away from the doomed airliner when 3 of them were flying over Ukraine. I am not defending MAS and saying that it is a right thing to fly over a conflicting area such as Ukraine. All airlines including MAS must avoid flying over conflicting areas. There were many other airlines and flights that flew in eastern Ukrainian airspace before.
Furthermore there are currently many other flights that fly over other conflict areas such as Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
Some people also talked rubbish about MH17 pilots for diverting from original path. You think pilots can change their flight direction wherever they want? The divertion was most probably under command of Ukrainian ATC. The people who talked crap about MH17 pilots are so insensitive because the pilots were among the 298 people who were aboard the ill-fated flight.
Also please read this on CNN:
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