AIRLINE BOSS SUGGESTS MALAYSIAN MH17 TRAGEDY COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Friday, September 12, 2014, 11:53

Some airlines appeared to know there were anti-aircraft missiles in Ukraine and were avoiding the country's airspace, Sir Tim Clark has said

The boss of Emirates has suggested that airlines would have avoided flying over Ukraine long before flight MH17 crashed, if information about missiles in the area had been passed on.

Sir Tim Clark told the BBC there had been evidence of weapons for weeks.

But he claimed those in the know didn't share it with most of the carriers flying across the country.

If the airlines had all been told, he suggests, the industry would probably have by-passed the danger zone.

And he added that some carriers did appear to know because they were avoiding the area, but they didn't share the information.

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