Thanks for posting.
I don’t believe the story.
The reasons for the US to tell it to itself are many and compelling.
The reasons it might be true are ... unreasonable.
If it is true, then this country is completely doomed, whereas, if the story is false, then we are only almost certainly doomed :-)
That said, this notion of flying our own plane into our own plane ... we did that in 2008 and maxed the throttle in 2012.
I don’t believe it simply because the damn government lies so much!!!!