Is it just a coincidence Malaysia Flight MH370 disappearance now MH17 shot down?

[Tusk]

With all the mystery around the disappearance of Flight MH370 and now less then 4 months later MH17 shot down, what are the odds? With both having many questions about the flight paths, you almost begin to think this is part of an Ian Fleming plot. 

[umair127]

Well, once again, Putin takes a fall. Now he is faced with either looking like someone who would allow his puppets, on the sly, to shoot down a plane, OR he looks like someone who can't control his puppets.

[Cryptopher]

Malaysia Airlines has a timeline of blips and tragedies, as many airlines do in their history. The fact that MH17 was shot down is likely unrelated to the disappearance on MH370.

It's just the close occurrence of two (one 100% confirmed) tragedies. I'm sure that it has freaked a lot of people out.

[tsoPANos]

Too bad year for Malaysian airlines!  
So who downed the plane? Nobody knows for sure... We'll see...

[Paya]

In case of MH370 disappearance, Malasyian Airlines showed great degree of incompetence. Now they let their MH17 to fly straight through this dangerous war zone where fighter jets and SAMs are active all over the place. Why? To save some fuel. How brilliant. So no, I wouldn't say its 'a coincidence, that company is horrible.

[Tusk]

RT reports that flight MH17 was instructed by Kiev air traffic control to deviate and drop from 35k to 33k  

[Stinky_Pete]

Donnie Darko

[sana8410]

Well, once again, Putin takes a fall. Now he is faced with either looking like someone who would allow his puppets, on the sly, to shoot down a plane, OR he looks like someone who can't control his puppets.

lol ,what Putin has to do with the disappearing of the first Malaysian plane?
I don\t know if is a coincidence between those 2 airplanes but one thing is for sure,i will never travel with Malaysian airplanes,i think this company is now the most unsecured airplane company in the world.

[byt411]

In case of MH370 disappearance, Malasyian Airlines showed great degree of incompetence. Now they let their MH17 to fly straight through this dangerous war zone where fighter jets and SAMs are active all over the place. Why? To save some fuel. How brilliant. So no, I wouldn't say its 'a coincidence, that company is horrible.

In my opinion, the MH370 disappearance was swiftly covered up by many governments. I find it impossible to believe that, with current technology, a plane carrying so many people can just disappear off the map. There's plenty of Satellites monitoring and filming the earth, something that big simply cannot "disappear".

[Cryptopher]

Well, once again, Putin takes a fall. Now he is faced with either looking like someone who would allow his puppets, on the sly, to shoot down a plane, OR he looks like someone who can't control his puppets.

lol ,what Putin has to do with the disappearing of the first Malaysian plane?
I don\t know if is a coincidence between those 2 airplanes but one thing is for sure,i will never travel with Malaysian airplanes,i think this company is now the most unsecured airplane company in the world.

By "once again", I don't necessarily think that umair127 was pointing the blame for MH370's disappearance on Putin, rather that once again Putin has got himself in another predicament, another negative story in the eyes of the world media.

Other controversies in the media involving VP include gay rights etc.

[Daniel91]

Is it just a coincidence Malaysia Flight MH370 disappearance now MH17 shot down?

Yes, I think so.
Is always fun to develop some kind of conspiracy theory but in this case I see just  coincidence and nothing else.
of course we can judge Malaysia air official why they didn't change the plane route but also other air companies used the same route previous days without any problem.
I guess really bad luck for this air company, 2 horrible accidents this year.

[Nemo1024]

Well, once again, Putin takes a fall. Now he is faced with either looking like someone who would allow his puppets, on the sly, to shoot down a plane, OR he looks like someone who can't control his puppets.

I think he will be ignoring the issue. It's not like it's Russia's problem. Let the US deal with it. If thing continue like they were doing, Russia will do, what it always did when faced with external threat: clamp up, and close in on itself. Isolate from the world.

[hologram]

We have not see Russia isolate from the world for more than one century...

[NapoleonBonaparte]

Malaysia Airlines has a timeline of blips and tragedies, as many airlines do in their history. The fact that MH17 was shot down is likely unrelated to the disappearance on MH370.

It's just the close occurrence of two (one 100% confirmed) tragedies. I'm sure that it has freaked a lot of people out.

Odd of one random tragic event is coincident, but two consecutive small chance random tragic event is probably not coincident.
 

[Nemo1024]

We have not see Russia isolate from the world for more than one century...

Soviet Union post 1925 and until 1989 was a big chunk of isolation to miss...

[hologram]

soviet union tried to impose his fucking ideology everywhere in the world... 

[Dogtanian]

Yes, it literally is just a coincidence. What other relation could there possibly be, though this isn't going to stop conspiracy theorists going wild with their imaginations. I think the simple matter of a fact was that the plane was flying over a warzone and some idiots blew it out of the sky just because they could.

[Tusk]

What is striking to me is there is a double coincidence at play here

1) Two aircraft disasters with the same airline
2) Both involve deviations from their regular flight plan

What are the odds of that

In the case of Flight MH370 nobody knows where it went

In the case of Flight MH17, granted its still early, but as far as I understand the plane deviated off course into the conflict zone and dropped from 35K to 33K

This coupled with the fact its the same airline makes the odds  about as close as me guessing satoshi's private keys  

[Ron~Popeil]

Malaysia Airlines has a timeline of blips and tragedies, as many airlines do in their history. The fact that MH17 was shot down is likely unrelated to the disappearance on MH370.

It's just the close occurrence of two (one 100% confirmed) tragedies. I'm sure that it has freaked a lot of people out.

Odd of one random tragic event is coincident, but two consecutive small chance random tragic event is probably not coincident.
 

No. It is a couple of tragedies brought on by human error. There is nothing out of the ordinary other than it happening to the same airline twice. Look ay American Air lines back in 2001. They lost more air craft and lives in a couple of months than MA has lost. Unlikely events happen all the time. 

[Cryptopher]

Malaysia Airlines has a timeline of blips and tragedies, as many airlines do in their history. The fact that MH17 was shot down is likely unrelated to the disappearance on MH370.

It's just the close occurrence of two (one 100% confirmed) tragedies. I'm sure that it has freaked a lot of people out.

Odd of one random tragic event is coincident, but two consecutive small chance random tragic event is probably not coincident.
 

It is a coincidence and nothing more. MH17 could have been easily avoided had the pilot not flown into a known combat zone. The aviation authority at MAS should have enforced a no-fly policy over that territory.

It's easy to say these things in hindsight, knowing the tragedy that unfolded. But just as there is huge blame and condemnation over the acts carried out by the perpetrators, there is also blame to be pointed at those within the airline for allowing their plane to fly over a dangerous zone.