[Mark17]

As someone else posted, why allow passenger planes to take off within a few hours of launching a missile barrage on a neighboring country ?

Maybe it was not a mistake at all? We might never know for sure.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

As someone else posted, why allow passenger planes to take off within a few hours of launching a missile barrage on a neighboring country ?

Maybe it was not a mistake at all? We might never know for sure.

This was no mistake. 130+ passengers headed to Canada -- most likely Iranian expats naturalized Canadian living in Toronto or Montreal on vacation in Iran to see their families for the Holidays. Shooting that plane down was one way of the Iranian regime to say: "F.U. Canada, US, Trump, Trudeau, Western Civilization". Those passengers might as well have been all American.

[MRadtke]

I’m not sure it was a mistake, either. That plane STARTED the flight very nearby from where it was shot down. Also it would have had navigation lights and a beacon on, something a hostile aircraft would not.

[polymuser]

“Maybe it was not a mistake at all?”

My first thought (remembering Ron Brown). We’re any imam, nuclear tech, Burisma or Naftogaz folks on it?

[Go Gordon]

Maybe it was not a mistake at all? We might never know for sure.

not until you see the passenger list