Posted on 07/23/2020 8:20:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The US military on Thursday confirmed that one of its fighter jets had flown within a few thousand feet of an Iranian commercial aircraft over Syria to "inspect it," after Iranian state media released videos showing apparently shaken and injured passengers.
A US F-15 conducted a "standard visual inspection" of the privately owned Iranian jetliner at a close distance of about 1,000 meters (some 3,300 feet), a spokesman for Central Command, the US military command responsible for the Middle East, said in a statement.
The US statement came after Iranian state media Press TV reported that fighter jets had conducted "dangerous" maneuvers close to an Iranian passenger plane.
Several passengers were injured in the incident, according to Press TV. The Mahan Air flight was flying from Tehran to Beirut, state media reports.
Iranian national broadcaster IRIB described the US maneuvering as a "provocative" action that had forced the passenger plane's pilot to abruptly lower altitude.
A defense official told CNN there were two US F-15's in the air, but that only one was sent to make the visual identification.
The CENTCOM spokesman said the inspection had occurred near a garrison used by the US-led coalition fighting ISIS, At Tanf, a small outpost in Syria near the Iraqi-Jordanian border that has been the scene of clashes between US and pro-regime and Iranian forces.
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US eyeball torpedoes caused injuries?
US eyeball photon torpedoes caused injuries?
1000 meters? That’s over a half mile away. Wusses.
Death to Iran!
[Turnabout is fair play]
They should have rattled the muzz pilot’s cage.
Good job
I wonder if the f15 had a geiger counter on board
Would be interesting to know who the passengers on that private aircraft were. Probably not tourists, families or school children.
Sounds like the muzzie pilot was trying to evade to hide something.
Looks like Lori Lighfoot
I suppose we should have shot it down like they did to one in Tehran a few month ago...Then we could have ‘inspected it’ at our leasure???
Drama queens - next time we should show them an F-15 at 100 meters.
1000 meters? Just enough for a Mark One human eyeball to confirm that it is a civilian aircraft. Cold War interception of Bears were much closer, close enough for the fighter pilot to hear those big turboprops.
I wonder what type of scanning equipment was used - I doubt anything that we know about.
The Iranian state television has video from inside the plane showing the aftermath it starts with an F-15 outside and then shifts inside to show injured people......
https://twitter.com/JasonMBrodsky/status/1286383099635478528
I am sure those on the plane were thinking of Iranian Air 655 when the US shot down and killed 290 civilian passengers.
Let’s hope so monkey.
And your point is?
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