Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
The reasons don't matter - you agree. Hence you can't pretend to ignore contrary arguments directed against the point of view you subscribe to.
You missed the point. This is way, way, waaaaaaay out of my area of expertise, so I defer to the conclusion made by (apparently unbiased) experts. You can not persuade me to contrary by pointing to flaws in their reasoning when I have literally no clue in that subject. If they change their report tomorrow, I'll accept their new conclusions.

MH 17 was the first aircraft loss at such an altitude, so before it Ukraine had had no reason to close off the area. And again, other companies had reshaped their routes without any tip or order.
Can't remember if they reported an actual number of planes, but the video showed very, very many dots flying around the area on that date.