Meaconing?

This is coolbert:

My instantaneous reaction on reading this item was MEACONING! False navigational signals intentionally transmitted to lure the target off course.

Is this so and by whom?

That also being my original thought [meaconing] when hearing of the recent [from several years ago now] Polish airliner crash near Smolensk. Killing all the dignitaries on board to include the Polish President and half the Polish military general staff!!

"Crashed MH17 flight 'was 300 miles off typical course'"

 

This image purportedly shows all the commercial air traffic in the skies over Europe at the time of the MH17 incident. Judge things for yourself.

 

"MH17 flight feared to have been shot down over Ukraine was taking a significantly different route to the usual course for flights from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, according to aviation expert."

"The crashed MH17 flight took a route 300 miles to the north of its usual path, an aviation expert has said."

"most Malaysia Airlines flights from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur normally travelled along a route significantly further south than the plane which crashed."

This shoot down of MH17 was deliberate? OR merely a mistake in a war zone? Call me paranoid but I fear the worst!

coolbert.