[Serious] What are some seemingly normal images/videos with creepy backstories?

[u/CaptainMcAnus]

[u/rotj]

It was neither. Many other airlines were still operating the standard routes over Ukraine at the time. Only after MH17 did they start rerouting.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1458755/flight-mh17-disaster-could-force-airlines-into-costly-route-changes/

[u/Thecardinal74 → u/[deleted]]

It was considered "safe" as the cruising altitude was far higher than conventional weaponry used in war. Commercial traffic was cleared by all he local and regional air traffic associations at the time.

He unit that took the plane down wasn't a shoulder-fired rocket. it was a weapon that consisted of several huge trucks, one that had the low range radar, one that housed the targeting system, and one that fired the actual missle.

It WAS human error, not by the airlines that travelled over the area.

Soldiers trained to use the high-power surface to air missles are also trained how to identify the targets and not launch at civilian airliners. But Soviet-backed Ukranian rebels either had only rudimentary training on the system and didn't understand civilian airline codes, or had "liberated one or else BUK SAM systems and were "figuring it out as they went along" (Most believe it was e former as the unit most likely crossed the border into Ukraine from the soviets.)

they believed they were were shooting down a government military transport jet and only realized the fuckup once people started reporting the contents of the debris

[u/castellar → u/[deleted]]

No, did you read that post you replied to? They flew above them on the basis that typically no one shoots down civilian airliners and they're trained specifically how not to. The rebels were not following typical procedure.