[bobmoretti]

Yep, and as someone else mentioned, flying right over one of the more heavily militarized areas of the planet (Kashmir). Also, why would Russia choose to hijack a plane full of Chinese citizens for this? The last thing they want right now is to compromise their relationship with China. It just doesn't make any sense.

[frevd]

Well, at that time the worlds media attention was on the Ukraine conflict, involving Russia. What better way to get media attention away from your plans than to create a mystery about which most of the western world happily cares much more than about watching eversame news about war and invasion.