It could be prevented by simply not flying over an active war zone, something airlines do all the times to prevent the exact same thing from happening.

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wafflemaker 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Or Girkin not ordering the civilian plane full of people to be shot down. It was a civilian plane at 10km altitude with a transponder on. Really doesn't look like a jet on a radar.

And up to that point Russia wasn't known to supply the separatists with an anti air system and the crew to run it.

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aunty_helen 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Doesn’t look like a F14 either but a US warship, rather than some guys in a field, still managed to pull that off and send 290 people to their graves.

	▲	LorenPechtel 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But it did look like an F-14. There really was an F-14, just on the ground at an Iranian airbase. And the Vincennes was under armed attack at the time--Iran let a civilian jetliner overfly their own attack. Plenty of blame for them, also.

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peyton 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It would seem the air defense systems used could not reliably determine what you imply they should [1][2]. I’m not sure where you’re coming from, or why it would matter what one country was known or not known to do.

[1]: https://www.technologyreview.com/2014/07/18/12951/how-can-a-...

[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/07/18...

	▲	lostlogin 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> why it would matter what one country was known or not known to do. It absolutely matters. Flying over a war zone with known anti aircraft missiles is quite different to flying over a low level conflict that is using small arms only.

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jojomodding 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Airlines started being more sensitive to this after the 2014 crash