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Flying Over Dangerous Areas
ASK THE PILOT looks at the protocols of flying over dangerous areas: "...Above restive areas flights are restricted to particular routes, specific altitudes and airspace sectors. Large chunks of airspace are often totally off limits. Look at the typical aviation chart, meanwhile, and you’ll see military operations areas and various restricted and prohibited zones scattered all over the place. This is true even over the United States. Compliance with these restrictions is important, but they… (www.askthepilot.com) Plus d'info...
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I think that the regular flight path was further South but that they were up on this jetway due to bad wx to the South. There is a report circulating now that Russia had closed this route just an hour or 2 before takeoff but nobody got the word. That has not been confirmed
As I stated in a previous thread the crew of MAS had asked for FL35, but it was denied. They flew north to avoid the wx, but apparently not far enough
If it was a BUK missile that got them, I doubt if a few thousand extra feet would have made any difference. In listening to the intercepted phone calls, I'm beginning to think it was not an accident, although it could have been any of several airliners.
