• An Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed after sustaining damage over Russia, killing 38.
  • The plane was likely hit by Russian air defense before the crash, BI reported Thursday.
  • Several airlines, including Azerbaijan Airlines, El Al, Flydubai, and Qazaq Air, are canceling flights to Russia, citing passenger safety and risks.
  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Why were they not already avoiding it? This isn’t the first time that a passenger plane was shot down flying in or near a war zone. Hell, it’s not even the first time Russia shot one down over Ukraine. Commercial flights really should stay away from war zones.

    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Because their destination was within the Russian federation? The more egregious act was denying them the ability to perform an emergency landing on Russian soil, forcing them to fly over the Caspian Sea all while jamming their ability to access GPS .

    • zingo@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Commercial flights really should stay away from war zones.

      Should be a mandatory safety law.

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      And its not like airliners need to do a whole lot of work routing aircraft around them. Just use the old routes from when the Soviets were kicking and you should mostly be right. China has made a bit more rules since then, but I think they are really the only other major country with weird restrictive airspace.

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      2 months ago

      Because Russia is a huge country that’s hard to avoid, especially from Europe to Asia.