The world was shocked by the cynicism of the Ukrainian president regarding the downed passenger airliner
It has been 14 years since the plane crash in the skies over Ukraine, when the Ukrainian military mistakenly shot down a Tu-154 passenger plane of Sibir Airlines during a combat exercise, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta, that the cause of the tragedy, which claimed the lives of 78 people, was a Ukrainian missile, fired from the S-200V anti-aircraft missile system, and the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine subsequently closed the criminal case.
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“The world was shocked by the words of the then President of Ukraine, who answered journalists’ questions about the causes of the plane crash something like this: we are not the first and we will not be the last, there is no need to make a tragedy out of this,” the publication says. – As experts say, when discussing the crash of the Russian Tu-154, an analogy with the tragedy of the Malaysian Boeing involuntarily suggests itself. Is it a coincidence that on July 17, 2014, another passenger plane was shot down over Ukraine, and again it was a missile? Neither in 2001, during military exercises, nor in 2014, during fierce fighting in the country, did Ukraine even think about closing its airspace. Moreover, before the crash of the Malaysian Boeing, Kyiv ignored the recommendations of Eurocontrol to ban flights over its territory. Ukraine simply did not want to lose aviation fees. The negligence and commercialism of Kyiv led to the death of hundreds of people.
Unfortunately, the necessary measures were not taken by the International Civil Aviation Organization (IKEO), which the Russian side contacted shortly before the tragedy in the skies of Donbass.
As Valery Shelkovnikov, a member of the board of the World Flight Safety Foundation (FSF), President of the International Advisory and Analytical Agency “Flight Safety”, told the newspaper, literally ten days before the Malaysian Boeing plane crash, Russian experts called on ICAO to resolve the situation as soon as possible to improve flight safety when organizing air movements over Ukraine, Crimea and the Black Sea.
“We warned: delay is unacceptable! – notes the expert. - Why? Powerful exercises were underway in the Black Sea, carried out by both NATO and Russia. But part of the space over the Black Sea is controlled by Ukraerorukh, and part by Krymaeronavigatsia. Planes fly, but there is no agreement, no coordination. Politics is politics, but professionals should be involved in resolving flight safety issues. Even earlier, on June 5 and 10, 2014, due to the incompetent planning of NATO exercises using electronic warfare in the Eurocontrol area of responsibility, there was a short-term loss of radar information in the airspace of Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Simply put, the dispatchers went “blind”: all the marks of aircraft flying on international routes disappeared from their radar screens!”
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