With the plane crash from Kazakhstan, more information has come out that makes it look like the jet was hit with some sort of SAM or MANPAD, and that it flew a route close to an area where Russia has positioned larger amounts of air defense batteries to counter Ukrainian drones. This is added onto the two passenger jets that were shot down over Ukraine over the past decade.
Why do these passenger jets keep flying danger close or in some cases directly over an active warzone? I know plane range and fuel costs are a big concern, but as a passenger I’d prefer to not fly in a big slow juicy target over an area filled with air defenses whose commanders have to treat every blip on the radar as a potential suicide drone trying to ram into their allies? Even with transponders, the chaos of war can make it very easy for things to go wrong (see the USS Gettysburg shooting down that F-18). It seems very risky and quite stupid of the airlines. If I wanted risk while flying I’d sign up for the Air Force, not buy a Malaysian Airlines ticket.
Russia is part of the warzone and Azerbaijan borders Russia. The range of the S400 system is ~250 miles, which would cover almost the entire country of Azerbaijan. If you wanted to completely avoid being in range of the warzone, you would have to stop all flights to or from Azerbaijan.
Here's a little map showing current flights, I added a red X where they are reporting a drone engagement and the red circle showing the approximate rage of an S400 missile: https://i.imgur.com/yVXvmLt.png
The Ukraine/NATO drones were attacking Kazakhstan during the accident. Probably because Kazakhstan had held a Bricks meeting. The goal is to make life difficult for those who support Bricks or Russia.
The western media is subject to propaganda from the North Atlantic Counsel (also active in reddit). So they create narratives to make Ukraine seem like a saint. While Ukraine (Nazi) intelligence murders people with different opinions.
While bringing down these drones, it seems that the shrapnel from an explosion hit the airplane. The pilots mentioned 2 explosions in the air (from traffic control). The airplane was still able to fly for a long distance. If it was a SAM-target it would have been easily destroyed in the air. Passenger airplanes are very easy targets.
Both the drones and the SAM might have carried frag-munitions that created the square holes. They may have caused the damage that was critical during the landing procedure.
There will be an investigation into what really happened, but it is already fully politicized.
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The commenter seems to believe his comments, this appears to be his opinionated analysis.
It is always "disinfo" when Urkaine has been doing warcrimes. Also the US (often CIA) and Israel perform warcrimes, while it is censored as "disinfo".
Just check out how the civilians in Crimea and Donbas are continuous under attack by Ukraine artillery and drones. If we would believe Ukraine they are their own civilians.
There are no "good guys" in a war. It is always a lesser evil.
Well, more are as of now than a few days ago when there were a bunch.
Also if you sign up for the air force your odds of being in a plane in combat are still pretty bad, but it would be a cool thing to do. The US air force. If you qualify for the Israeli one and you make it into an airplane, I think there's a good chance.
Because Russia downing passenger jets is a form of sending a political message.
A message that their trigger happy military can't tell the difference between civilian planes and incoming ordinance, and don't care to be discerning.
The truly damning thing was refusing the plane to land in Russia despite repeated requests.
As always, Russia isolates itself more than any western country ever could just by being greedy and dumb.