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Malaysia Airlines Flight 17: Why Was the 777 Flying over a War Zone?

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Key Takeaways:

Unlike the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 last spring little mystery remains about what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in the skies over eastern Ukraine last week.

We knew very quickly that the Boeing 777-200 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile, and we soon learned that the culprits of the attack likely were Russian-backed separatists who acquired the missile launcher from Moscow.

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