Lots of other planes flew the same route:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2697098/THREE-HUNDRED-planes-scheduled-fly-Ukraine-day-MH17-tragedy.html
Considering that hundreds of civil aeroplanes were flying over the area and that only a minority were Ukraine's military...
My guess... a feeling of loss over a fallen empire?
The empire of the tsars and the Soviets has now fallen to the level of a middle power with a struggling economy and heaps of social problems. People nostalgic of the communist era are bitter about their lower living standards while those who...
