The Russian RPG’s have been used to take down helicopters. I would not be surprised if a rag fired an RPG-29 at an approaching aircraft. They have a range up to 2600 feet.
They are/were in the inventory of Libya, Syria, Hamas, and Pakistan.
Hitting an aircraft at speed would be just Sierra Hotel Lima.
Concur.
My guess in this incident:
Some raghead with an RPG squeezed one off at an approaching a/c or one that had just taken off, and immediately took off, driving like a bat out of hell.
Unsophisticated, failed attack using pretty primitive weapons.
And my blind guess is the pilot saw it AFTER it missed, and all this “I jinked my immense commercial aircraft, low to the ground, on the SLY..” is sorta laying it on a little thick.