Posted on 01/08/2020 5:04:39 PM PST by USA Conservative
The crash of a Ukrainian jetliner that killed 176 people in Iran touched off mourning Wednesday in both Ukraine and Canada where many of the victims were from or were headed and raised a host of questions about what went wrong. But U.S. intelligence officials said there was no immediate evidence it was shot down.
This morning Iran refused to turn over the black box from the downed plane.
Iran will not give the black box of the crashed Ukrainian airliner to planemaker Boeing, the head of Tehrans civil aviation organization was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
Ali Abedzadeh also said it was not clear which country Iran would send the box to so that its data could be analyzed, semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
Now new evidence surfaced.
A local Iranian reportedly discovered a control segment of a TOR M1 missile near the Ukrainian plane crash site.
Avherald has high pictures of the fuselage piece from another angle and nearly all of the circled “shrapnel holes” aren’t there or are rock shadows.
The vertical stabilizer has an obvious thru penetration hole, from the right side to the left side.
There is also a “two missile” theory, that a second missile was fired from the IRG base when the plane circled back toward the airport. This would explain a missile nose cone near the wreckage and the second explosion just before ground impact.
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