Your thoughts on MA17 are intriguing. I always put it down to “BAD RUSSIA”

Some more insight on that flight. I spent 6years working for an Airline based in UAE and the day MA17 was shot down I was flying from Dubai to JFK. I flew that route often and we ALWAYS went up over Ukraine/Greenland/Canada and then onto JFK. That day our flight path took us down over Africa and then back up. I remember seeing us fly over Ghana and thinking WTF. At some point 2/3 of the way into the flight the captain got word of MA17 and the news quickly made the rounds to us on the plane. This flight path added 1 1/2hrs on our flight time and out of the 100 plus times I flew this route it was the only time it happened. MA17 wasn’t shot down till 8-10hrs into our flight. Obviously whoever planned our route that day knew something was up.