We Did Warn You — Do Not Fly In Our Sky'

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Pro-Russian Rebel Commander: 'We Did Warn You — Do Not Fly in Our Sky'

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KIEV, Ukraine — As news broke of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 being downed in eastern Ukraine, the separatist’s shadowy commander with a pencil mustache issued a dark warning on social media.

Through his VK.com account, Russia’s version of Facebook, the self-proclaimed defense minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Igor Girkin — who goes by the nom de guerre Igor Strelkov — boasted about shooting down a plane.

"We did warn you — do not fly in our sky," he wrote.

Thinking it was a Ukrainian transport plane, Strelkov added that “a plane has just been downed somewhere around Torez, it lays there behind the 'Progress' mine,” referring to the mining town of some 80,000 people.

“And here is the video proving another 'bird' falling down,” he continued. “The bird went down behind a slagheap, not in a residential district. So no peaceful people were injured,” Strelkov wrote, adding that there is also information about a Ukrainian military plane shot down.

However, Strelkov deleted the post when he found out it was actually a commercial jetliner carrying 295 innocent people — not a military aircraft.

 

A man stands next to the wreckage of the malaysian airliner carrying 295 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur after it crashed, in rebel-held east Ukraine, on July 17, 2014.

IMAGE: DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

The pro-Russian rebels in Donetsk have been colliding with Ukrainian forces for months and have brought down several military aircrafts. However, the rebels denied their involvement with two crashes this week, saying they didn't have the kind of equipment to carry out such an event.

On Wednesday, the Ukrainian government claimed that a Russian military plane shot down a Ukrainian fighter jet. Just two days ago, Ukrainian officials suggested that a military transport plane carrying food and water for troops was shot down by an advanced rocket system fired from Russia.

Strelkov, a native Muscovite, is known for his brutality. As reported in Mashable, he led an illegal military tribunal and sentenced at least three Ukrainian citizens to death by firing squad under a 1941 Stalin-era law.

 

A Donetsk People's Republic fighter throw a bottle of water to colleagues as they arrive at gas station to fill their tank with fuel in Snizhne, 100 kilometers east of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Thursday, July 17, 2014.

IMAGE: DMITRY LOVETSKY/ASSOCIATED PRESS

The conflict in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions began in April.

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All planned flights over Ukraine are seen scrambling away after the crash on a Flight Tracker App

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Many airlines have now announced that they will stop flying over conflict area in Ukraine.

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#BREAKING: Russian airline Aeroflot says will no longer fly over Ukraine territory

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British Airways sent this statement to Mashable:

The safety and security of our customers is always our top priority.

Our flights are not using Ukrainian airspace, with the exception of our once a day service between Heathrow and Kiev.

We are keeping those services under review, but Kiev is several hundred kilometres from the incident site.

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It appears that a new temporary flight restriction has been issued by the FAA for the area where #MH17 has gone down.

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The FAA order applies to U.S. airlines, so it does not mandate that Malaysia Airlines could not fly over that region. The order has a safety exception, which states:

In an emergency that requires immediate decision and action for the safety of the flight, the pilot-in-command of an aircraft may deviate from this [order] to the extent required by that emergency.

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In addition, the FAA order requires U.S. air carriers operating "into, out of, within, or transiting" from certain flight information regions, which is an area of airspace, to "exercise extreme caution." Specifically, the order states (ALL-CAPS from original text):

U.S. OPERATORS AND AIRMEN FLYING INTO, OUT OF, WITHIN, OR TRANSITING LVOV (UKLV), KYIV(UKBV), DNEPROPETROVSK (UKDV), AND ODESSA (UKOV) FIRS, AS WELL AS AIRSPACE IN THE SIMFEROPOL (UKFV) FIR THAT IS OUTSIDE THE LATERAL LIMITS OF SFAR 113 AIRSPACE DESCRIBED ABOVE, MUST REVIEW CURRENT SECURITY/THREAT INFORMATION AND NOTAMS; COMPLY 
WITH ALL APPLICABLE FAA REGULATIONS, OPERATIONS SPECIFICATIONS, MANAGEMENT SPECIFICATIONS, AND LETTERS OF AUTHORIZATION, INCLUDING UPDATING B450; AND EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION DUE TO THE CONTINUING POTENTIAL FOR INSTABILITY.

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