Posted on 01/07/2020 7:35:06 PM PST by janetjanet998
BREAKING: Ukrainian passenger plane carrying 180 people crashes near Tehran - local media
Probably most of the “Canadians” are Iranians by birth?
I'll see your monk and raise a Gibbs Rule 32
Been determined it couldn’t have been one of the missiles they launched. Doesn’t fit the timeline. Obviously they “should” know more later. But this is really bad news for Boeing,regardless.
Apparently almost all the passengers were either Canadians of Iranian origin or students from Iran returning to Canada after our winter holiday break. By and large these would be people whose politics were not in line with the regime there, and in religious terms not necessarily Muslims. Of the 170 people on board, 138 had tickets to board a flight from Kiev to Toronto which just landed almost empty.
Of those who were Canadian citizens, the vast majority would have been people who left Iran around the 1979 regime change because they did not want to live in that kind of society. They were probably back in Iran to visit family members who had not made the same decision. Whatever the cause, it is a needless waste of human life. RIP.
Who determined that?
Looking is the area is like a museum to standard air defense layouts of the 1970s-1989. They do not seem to ever buldoze the empty ones. With the number of systems in the area place your bets on SA-2, SA-200, SA-6 and their improved hawk system. Someone is a missle or two short this morning and has hell to pay.
Hillary hand wrote the safety checklist and flight plan herself. Nice gesture to a mutual friend of hers and the Bidens. Records were lost, of course, in the crash.
Russian SAM nosecone. Heads will roll.
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Possible. The Canadians via Trudeau and the Washington Post are now claiming it was a missile shootdown and some of the crash scene photos show fragmentation damage to the upper wing and fuselage surfaces. Handheld Ground-to-Air missile impacts are generally toward the bottom/rear of the wings, which does not at all rule out a larger, vehicle mounted unit.
I am pretty sure that’s the case. Because according to Ukrainian news the plane was only 3 years old and technically fine with the best pilots and crew on board. The debris is shattered into small pieces. It doesn’t just happen. The pilot didn’t ask for help. It happened very fast.
US officials, according to Newsweek and CBS News, have said The crashed Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 may have been accidentally shot down shot down by a missile, according to reported US satellite intelligence.
Some people did something.
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