Following safety rules A file photo of a MAS plane flying over the Sukarno-Hatta airport in Tangerang, Indonesia. - AFP
WASHINGTON: Almost as soon as the news broke about the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines flight over Ukraine on Thursday, in which all 298 passengers and crew members were killed, people began to ask: What was a commercial aircraft doing over a conflict zone in the first place? Was this disaster somehow the airline’s fault?
The answer is no – but to understand why, you have to look at the complex realities of modern commercial aviation.
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