With all of the scrutiny surrounding the path of doomed MH17 over a war zone in eastern Ukraine, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH4 took a questionable route from Kuala Lumpur to London yesterday:
Malaysia Airlines flight MH4 (Airbus A380) flew over Syria yesterday http://t.co/MpWz4dKljl pic.twitter.com/nH8fGeIAlw
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) July 21, 2014
As far as we have seen #MH4 was the only transcontinental flight going over Syria.
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) July 21, 2014
Homs remains an area of heavy fighting despite a recently lifted siege, with ISIS taking over a gas field and executing many of the workers.
A look at FlightRadar24 this morning found that MH4 wasn’t flying over Syria anymore, but heading over the Islamic State and Mosul:
Planes are having to find new diversions since last week’s takedown of the passenger airliner by a Russian-made missile, including this wide curve under the Crimean peninsula.
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