Originally Posted by
Learjet FO
I'm more angry at the Ukranian ATC for vectoring MH17 or allowing it to fly over an area where they lost 2 transports previously. War is war and the SAM operators most likely thought it was a Ukranian transport loaded with airborne troops about to parachute down and shoot them in the face.
You do realize that most airliners enroute to SEA were routed thru Ukraine that day and days before. Along with most other civil traffics under the NOTAM restricting flights to above F320. No controller vectored MH17 or anyone else into the range of the missile sites.
GF