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Boeing 737 Down After Taking Off from Tehran
- vanniv 7y ago...and Iran is withholding the flight recorders, which, coupled with the location and timing are a might suspicious...
- WarDores 7y agoYeah, the publicly available flight information shows it basically exploded wholesale in mid-air. That doesn't just happen with modern aircraft.
- megous 7y agoHow so? Debris field doesn't look that large and the supposed video of the crash shows burning plane and large explosion on impact to the ground. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_iizkgIOfU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_iizkgIOfU
- WarDores 7y agoThe flight information on FlightRadar24 shows no sign of deviation or trouble, then abruptly ends during the ascent. https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/ukrainian-flight-ps752-crashes-shortly-after-take-off-from-tehran/ https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/ukrainian-flight-ps752-cr...
- megous 7y agoThat doesn't mean it exploded mid-air. If it exploded mid-air where the FlightRadar24 data end, the debris field would be in the direction of the flight and spread wide. Debris field is in the opposite direction and elsewhere though.
- geoelectric 7y agoThat means the transponder became non-viable at that point. Any sort of in-air catastrophe could have caused that, including onboard fire. Redundant airplane systems protect against component failure, but they tend to still be near each other. For example, if an AA gun were to tag the plane in the right place it could easily take out power to both a primary and backup. It really doesn't look like a mid-air explosion. It was either a massive spontaneous fire for some reason (assuming the burning thing in the social media post was the plane) or it got shot down.
- megous 7y agoLooks like it got shot down, it just wasn't destroyed right away. Now there's even a video of the event. https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1215348488164298752 https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1215348488164298752
- GoToRO 7y agoIt was not that high, so the area is smaller than it would have been if the plane would have fallen from 10000 km altitude.
- GoToRO 7y agoAlso the way the debris were scattered on the ground suggests an explosion. This also correlates with what they said about no mayday call from the aircraft. It was taken down or it was a collission with a drone or something like that.
- vanniv 7y agoWell, most airframes will explode wholesale in mid-air when they come into contact with anti-aircraft missiles (which, of course, was your point -- and also, as it turns out, what happened)
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoYes. But suspicious of what?
- kinkrtyavimoodh 7y agoLemme be blunt. Some people believe that since this happened at a time military tensions between Iran and the US were escalating, the plane could have been taken down mistakenly by a trigger-happy general as a false positive.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoPerhaps. But a general of which side? It was, I think, over Iran, so Iran's air defense would be the logical suspect. And Iran withholding the flight recorders would fit with that. The more paranoid, of course, will look beyond the logical suspects...
- boublepop 7y agoLast time a civilian aircraft was shot down over Iranian airspace it was the US. And while they agreed to some “no-blame” deal including a financial compensation they never actually apologized for murdering 290 innocent people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
- vanniv 7y agoWell would ya look at that... The Iranians shot the plane out of the sky after all. Looks like the crash had nothing to do with the model number of the aircraft after all.