Trump’s fault! Seriously, if this is ever proven to be true, the MSM and the left will pin this on Trump.
What in the world did they hope to gain by this? They could not have done this in error since commercial aircraft all carry transponders as identification.
Any VIP’s on that plane?
A investigation more likely will find it was a spark in the empty center fuel tank that caused the loss of the aircraft.
A single radar guided missile with explosive warhead, eg the SA-15, could be expected to easily catch something like an airliner on climb out. It would guide to the biggest radar reflection- a wing or wing/fuselage area and proximity detonate as designed. This would mean the seeker would be relatively intact, not having impacted the target, and with the warhead shape charge configured to create an expanding annular ring of debris. This shrapnel would most likely perforate the wing and fuselage- puncturing fuel tanks, causing a fire, perhaps damaging an engine and/or control lines. While it is possible for something as big as a multi engine airliner to survive a single missile strike, it is also quite possible to lose the aircraft from a single hit. The commercial aircraft would lack self sealing fuel tanks, lumbering into the air it wasn't evading so the missile would be able to get very close at detonation causing maximum damage...
I am shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED!!!!!! /s
Where was the plane headed?
Were Iranian government official’s families on it to escape the possible turmoil?
No apology from the Mullahs?
Fatwa THEM. Fatwa them REAL good.
When we had frozen Iranian assets here in the USA before Obama released them, the victims of this downed Ukrainian flight would have had that money to claim damages from.
Now its bumpkiss.
Good thing Hunter Biden or John Kerry were not aboard!
Obama gave Iran the cash $150 billion, to shoot down passenger aircraft.
The Democrats are evil.
Iran is seeking that one big U.S. military hit, but instead is murdering hundreds of commercial passengers. Maybe they should read the instructions on the box before firing.
Suspicious it happened within hours of their missile launch. Methinks perhaps a deliberate hit, hoping the crash would be lost in the news cycle vs all that was going on. A Ukrainian airline. Let’s see who was on the passenger manifest. Perhaps some witnesses.
With all those missiles flying around the sky, what kind of pilot would take off? Someone like Ray Charles??
And how about that Control Tower...WOW.
New York Slimes, Washington Compost, UPI today are reporting the plane was turning back to the airport, but of course that can’t be verified without the black boxes.
If the claim is true, and if looking for a reason, I suspect it would be found somewhere on the passenger list, among the Iranian passengers. The Mullah’s have never hesitated to use any means to go after any opponents of the regime. No territory in the world have been off limits, and no murderous means have been off limits. Yes, they have always been willing to kill innocents when killing someone they have targeted.
Anyone on that Ukraine Airlines plane linked to Burisma or Naftogaz?