What on earth
possesses someone, anyone, to shoot down a civilian aircraft?
Once more we are
deep into tragedy involving a Malaysian Airlines aircraft.
Once more we are
being dipped into the morass of conspiracy and unspoken threats.
The facts appear, and
I emphasise ‘appear’, to be that a Boeing 777 of Malaysian Airlines bearing the
flight code MH17 has been shot down by a ‘Buk’ ground to air missile over the
Ukraine.
Now the
recriminations start. Now we are hell bent on blaming innocent people.
The reports say that
the aircraft was flying around 300 miles too far to the north.
There has been, we
are told, an advisory telling pilots to follow a more southerly route.
An advisory. Please
note that.
This is not a
mandatory ‘No Fly Zone’.
Many airlines, in order
to save fuel, will follow the routes given to them.
Observe that I said,
“The route given to them.” Pilots do not pick their routes although they are
able to change them if they have operational reasons for doing so.
Is a war zone an operational reason? Well, in the first
place, is it really a war zone? At the moment it is more of a supported
insurgency the rights and wrongs of which are not ours to discuss since we have
little background information with which to make a rational decision about it.
Suppose it is a war zone. Suppose it is demarcated as a
‘No Fly Zone’. The ‘rules’ put in place by the Ukrainian authorities say that
aircraft should not fly within an altitude of 0’ (zero) to 32,000’.
We are told by sundry media outlets that the aircraft, and
nobody appears to argue with this, was flying at 33,000’.
In summation, the aeroplane described as MH 17 was flying
on an approved route from Schiphol (Amsterdam) to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) at an
approved height.
The pilot was doing everything properly.
In this electronic age when we can track aircraft from the
safety of our homes on our laptop computers and, even, iPads, how hard is it
for someone with their finger on the firing button of a ground to air missile
system to identify a civilian passenger aircraft?
Who is it that looked at this high-flying aircraft through
the ranging system on the ground to air missile system and said to his
colleagues, “Oh, look. That aircraft is flying at 33,000’. It is above the
exclusion zone. Let’s shoot it down.”
There are reports that indicate that a conversation
between separatist rebels and A.N.Other exists in which the separatist is
saying something to the effect of, “Oh, shit! Guess what?”
Nobody is saying that these rebels have all got
degrees—indeed many of them probably lack that extra brain cell that would
match the other one in their heads. Even so...
And now we get into the politicising. Already there are
politicians, who are not known for their fine intellect, blaming all sorts of
other people for all sorts of other reasons.
The primary reason for the politicians to get into the act
is hardly altruistic. Rather it is the possibility of enhancing their own image
at the expense of others. Then, of course, it follows that their own policies
will be endorsed by their reasoning.
Conspiracies? Oh, yes.
It was MOSSAD because it is widely known that Malaysia is
anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian.
Of course it was. I can just see a crew of black hatted
and plaited orthodox Jews smuggling a ground to air missile across Europe into
the Ukraine...
“Someone is trying to bankrupt MAS.”
Really? They are doing a good enough job on that matter
without anyone helping them along.
“It’s all to do with stocks and shares.”
Mind boggling rationale.
“Did you know that the pilot never made a distress call?”
Well, I never. He didn’t? His aircraft has just been hit,
out of the blue, with a Buk ground to air missile.
First reaction? Oh, I’d better update ‘Facebook’!
Distress call? He would not have had time to wonder what
had happened let alone make a distress call.
No. This was a criminal act. Very simply, somebody on the
ground made a horrible mistake for which they must pay. The time for cover-ups
and secrecy and comradeships is past.
Drag him out and hang him.
We have had enough of tragedy in the air this year, thank
you very much. To have a man-made, deliberate one is too much right now.
