Azerbaijan E190 Crash in Kazakhstan

[xspeedy]

Nobody in a sober state of mind should be flying into or over Russia. Airlines have just now halted flights, but for only thirty days. As if things will be better in that timeframe.

[TeeVee]

Nobody in a sober state of mind should be flying into or over Russia. Airlines have just now halted flights, but for only thirty days. As if things will be better in that timeframe.

of course they will--trump will be in office and everything in the world will be so perfect, i mean perfect like you've never seen before. BIGLY perfect.

[Evan]

of course they will--trump will be emperor and everything in the world will be so perfect, i mean perfect like you've never seen before. BIGLY perfect.

politically corrected.

I still don't have a clear understanding of the sequence of events here. Was Russia an alternate on their flight plan? If not, why Russia?

[Not_Karl]

Was Russia an alternate on their flight plan?

No, it was their intended destination (Grozny, Chechnya).