it happened on the day which was back then (and still is) the official celebration day of the Soviet Union (now Russian) border and airspace defense forces. Ev

it happened on the day which was back then (and still is) the official celebration day of the Soviet Union (now Russian) border and airspace defense forces. Everybody who knows Russia and its military easily understands why nobody was able to take a decision, why the plane was several times lost from the radars, mistaken for something else, the target tracking codes assigned inside the airspace defense system to the plane matched and mismatched with other airborne targets / objects in the airspace.... It is a very good luck (which God sends to drunks and children :) that that day in that chaos no other planes were shot down ... :) (google for "Ukrainian missile Sibur Tu-154 2001" - how it happens when luck is missing)