There has finally been a breakthrough of sorts concerning the MH17 plane that disappeared off eastern Ukrainian airspace in July 2014. The plane, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Amsterdam, crashed after being impacted by a Russian made Buk missile, according to the Dutch Safety Board.
This may provide some answers for families of the passengers on board as well as for the airline that had already suffered massive negative press from the MH370 tragedy a few months prior to this. Of course this is not about the bad press. Now, the main thing is to find the people responsible. The Buk missile was being used by both Russian as well as Ukrainian forces, so the blame game will continue for a while. There have to be outside agencies who need to go on the ground and investigate because this falls outside the purview of war “ attacking civilians.
One of the big question that also needs to be asked was why the airspace above the zone where Russian and Ukrainian forces were engaged in combat was not closed to civilian aircraft. Ukraine may defend their inaction by stating that they didn’t know that anti-aircraft missiles were being used but it doesn’t change the fact that a passenger plane was shot down as a direct result of that inaction.There is even the possibility that the plane was shot down because some trigger happy soldier thought it was enemy aircraft.
298 people died on that day. They should have landed in Amsterdam alive, but for airspace that shouldn’t have been open and someone who fired a missile on a civilian aircraft. It’s imperative that an investigation is conducted and the persons responsible incarcerated.
