Quote:Military aircraft certainly fly at all altitudes, and often do.  Commercial aircraft can fly up to 40,000 feet depending on their route.  The altitude an aircraft flies at does not designate whether it is military or civilian.     

 

I'm no military expert, I'm just going off what i was told by a career military guy. according to him and a few others I talked to Military and Civilian aircraft fly at different altitudes. He refereed to it as a civilian air space and military air space highway being independent of each other. It was his opinon which I tend to agree with at this point that anyone knowledgeable enough to operate that BUK system would be able to know a military plane vs commercial plane based upon the altitude that plane was flying at.

 

I'm not discounting the rebels probably shot the thing down if not Russians themselves, I just have a hard time believing whoever did it, did it by accident or didn't know it was a commercial flight.

 

there's also the possibility that Ukraine shot it down in hopes the world would then side with them in a war they stand no chance of winning on their own.

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