It just makes you scratch your cynical heads when you watch what is happening with this plane and all the poor souls onboard.
Within minutes the world is producing film, flightpaths, voice recordings from the Separatists commanders to and from the bloke that allegedly fired the rocket. Even film of the launcher being taken back across the border.
Yet the other Malaysian Plane with the other poor souls that went missing without a trace - they can't even tell you where it crashed.
Smells really bad to me.
No, pretty reasonable.
The Ukraine is a hot spot right now, and no doubt has a pretty serious percentage of the worlds intelligence resources focused on it, from satellites to radio intercept and decryption, to phone and data intercepts and a fair few people on the ground.
MH370 was in a peaceful area, over water between Malaysia and Vietnam, little of military interest was going on there so not much in the way of intelligence gathering gear was pointed at it when the event happened, then it seems to have strayed into utterly (militarily) uninteresting territory (southern Indian ocean) and gone down.
On a semi related note, I do find it quite ironic that there has been such an outcry over the NSA monitoring all these phone calls and all of a sudden people are seeing exactly why they monitor them.