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That the cost of a little extra fuel to divert round a potentially dangerous area and add a few extra minutes to the journey ETA is a good risk management option. Malaysian Airlines do things a little more on the cheap [eg MH370 not using optional extra data feeds to RR] so fly direct, save...

Base of the UK Air Accident Investigation Branch - they have facilities to reconstruct [as best they can obviously] all the pieces of an aircraft for further clues as well as simulate the final flight of the aircraft. The cockpit voice recorder may also provide valued information - eg a rumour...

Jeez, you're tetchy: "if you are old enough" was a genuine caveat put in purely in recognition that significant readership on this site were born after this conflict - to call it a "rather silly backhanded insult" is they way YOU interpreted it, not the way I wrote it. Grumpy ar$e .....

Ok, cast your mind back [if you are old enough] to the Falklands conflict. The Argentinian air-force inflicted significant damage [sunk British ships and killed British forces] using French supplied Exocet missiles - were the French blamed for this? I recall the Thatcher government putting...