The crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines flight prompted several airlines to suspend flights to Russia.
  • An Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed after sustaining damage over Russia, killing 38.
  • The plane was likely hit by Russian air defense before the crash, BI reported Thursday.
  • Several airlines, including Azerbaijan Airlines, El Al, Flydubai, and Qazaq Air, are canceling flights to Russia, citing passenger safety and risks.
  • FuglyDuckEnglish
    5•18 hours ago

    Part of it might also be that sometimes, military or intelligence flights might squawk ads-b with a spoofed signal to blend into the overall traffic.

    It isn’t that they didn’t know they were there, it’s that they didn’t believe the ID. It’s not just the hardware that’s the problem. (The hardware is dogshit, but so are the people using it. People are part of the system, too, and they’re fairly poorly trained.)