U.S. Believes Ukraine Plane Was Shot Down by Iran: U.S. Official
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#2I was thinking with all the military action going on, someone had to have pretty good coverage looking for missile launches.
It raises the question how you even can manage having an active / ready to fire anti-air system online and commercial planes active?
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#4CNN article has no paywall:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/09/politics/is-iran-ukraine-plan...
The CNN article says that Newsweek was first to report the story:
https://www.newsweek.com/iranians-shot-down-ukraine-flight-m...
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#5The interesting thing is NYT reporting that the aircraft had turned back towards Tehran airport before crashing. That could be a sign of technical troubles or the aircraft was warned to return to the airport because of active AA systems in the area.
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#6from the CNN article: One possibility being considered is that an Iranian missile unit saw something on their radar, thought they were under attack and fired.
This is one danger of brinksmanship, which is that people's fingers are hovering a little too close to the trigger. If that is indeed what happened here, we can only hope that the powers that be realize that their saber-rattling was a cause of these deaths.
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#7from the CNN article: One possibility being considered is that an Iranian missile unit saw something on their radar, thought they were under attack and fired. This is one danger of brinksmanship, which is that people's fingers are hovering a little too close to the trigger. If that is indeed what happened here, we can only hope that the powers that be realize that their saber-rattling was a cause of these deaths.
> the powers that be
So Khamenei and Trump.
I wouldn't count on it.
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#8I encourage everyone to read AV Herald- a site closely linked to the aviation community. Their coverage of this developing story is impressive.
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#9"Of the 176 people on board, 82 were Iranian, 63 were Canadian and 11 were Ukrainian (including nine crewmembers), along with 10 Swedish, seven Afghan and three German nationals. None survived." What a tragedy.
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#10from the CNN article: One possibility being considered is that an Iranian missile unit saw something on their radar, thought they were under attack and fired. This is one danger of brinksmanship, which is that people's fingers are hovering a little too close to the trigger. If that is indeed what happened here, we can only hope that the powers that be realize that their saber-rattling was a cause of these deaths.
So you propose we should have let Iran continue to kill Americans?