It taxied to the southeast before coming about to take off to the northwest. The white part of the track is on the ground.
Posted on 01/15/2020 11:36:48 AM PST by DTAD
New video footage has emerged showing two Iranian missiles tearing through the night sky and hitting a Ukrainian passenger plane, sending the aircraft down in flames and killing all 176 passengers and crew on board.
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How many are still wondering if the guy that fired the missile is still converting O2 to CO2?
I’m not.
So much for the shootdown being an “oops”...
A lot is strange about this shotdown. As I understand the plane took off facing SE then turned around NW. If they expected US to strike in retaliation to their strike on Iraqi target the US strike would has come from S-SW and it could have take no less than 40 minutes for cruise missiles to reach anywhere near Tehran even from the most favorable position (a ship on the north side of the Persian Gulf for example) given the platform was ready to take a shot locked and loaded.
I understand how an inexperienced operator could have confused a low-flying commercial airliner with a Tomahawk and it is consistent with the way missiles were fired but all the doubts above should have been taken into account and they shouldn’t have been that reckless in direct proximity of a busy international airport anyway.
I’m surprised that the airport wasn’t shut down if they were on high alert for incoming. How many flights went out that evening?
The night it happen I was watching a commercial flight locator program. It seems there was no commercial flights shut down over Iran. The Ukrainian flight disappeared at the time it was shot down. The host kept re-streaming the time loop for the shoot down.
At the very least Aeroflot (SU152) and Austrian Airlines (OS872) flew in and out that day. FAA issued NOTAM for the area but it only related to US carriers. Emirates and Lufthansa stopped flying already after shotdown on their own initiative.
Iranian CSAF Amir Hodjizade claims they demanded civilian authorities to close airspace but it was ignored probably because a lot of big shots tried to move their families to Europe at the time.
Thanks for the info.
After listening to the commentator it’s clear that the center fuel tank was the culprit.
I thought they had those damn things fixed.
It taxied to the southeast before coming about to take off to the northwest. The white part of the track is on the ground.
Thank you for the info. I didn’t see the picture and relied on an online comment at another forum.
The guy who triggered the missiles was in a terrible spot: risk allowing an incoming missile to hit its target or risk shooting down a civilian plane, killing hundreds of innocent people. He would have been grateful to be between a rock and a hard place!
Yep - lends more credence to the rumor there were some Iranian Nuke scientists trying to leave...unless that’s been debunked - haven’t seen anything except the initial rumors.
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