Shocking: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flight back to India, which took off from Berlin two hours before the crash and was in the same flight corridor, was rerouted. MH-17 came down at Torez, near Shakhtersk, some 40 km from the Russia border in Ukraine after going off the radar at 7 p.m. IST. The Prime Minister’s flight Air India-001 took off from Frankfurt at 4.30 p.m. IST, and the flight time to Donetsk would be approximately three hours. That would have put him over the Ukraine Flight Information Region (FIR) about an hour after MH 17. “There was no danger to the PM’s plane, but obviously the area that they would have flown over would have been the same. The pilot would have had to decide whether to divert over Russia or the Black Sea instead,” said an aviation official, who could not confirm which of the options were employed. All flights over the area were rerouted soon after the crash, according to FlightRadar 24, a live flight tracker website.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 01:53:50 +0000
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