Looks Like I Was Correct

[Bazile]

Looks like i was correct in a post yesterday , when i suggested a link between the missile attack by the Iranians and the Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737-800 tragedy

All in all , very sad indeed


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-51055219

[derek-33]

you and thousands of others bazile

[ichkeria]

I hope they can come up with better excuses than their Russian allies :-)

[emmie]

perhaps time will tell the truth of the matter.

[Peter Pedant]

// perhaps time will tell the truth of the matter.//
I doubt it

Derek para is being unfair - I discounted it
because - - the Americans did it before on the Iranians.
Doesnt anyone remember ? around 1988
and I thought the iranians cdnt possibly be so thick as to repeat a mistake that was done on them 30 y ago..... I might be wrong

the idea at the time was the two sides were playing chicken with airplanes, and a tomcat and an airliner took off at the same time and the wrong one was shot down

BUT - a few days ago - - -
an ex pentagon fella said - the level of lying over this by the state dept reached such a height that men were disgusted by the idiocy of some of the stuff - - [oo er Mrs !]
The commander of the Vincente was a gung-ho madman and it was an accident which was waiting to happen....
so I am now rather keeping quiet about the so called mix up
( clinton took Rx and pd $200m I think)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

[ichkeria]

Bellingcat are on the case.
I’m sure the truth will come out

[Peter Pedant]

well the hacks were on the watch out for shrapnel holes peppering the shell - and didnt find any
( the sharp bits are on the inside showing the explosion and shrapnel were on the outside)
but another hack said he had spotted a cone shaped tip

in a good going cack up - never understimate the role of sheer incompetence

[Togo]

Perhaps it was done by the mad mullahs at the behest of the Russians as part of the ongoing campaign against the Ukraine. Just to spice things up the Iranians are now claiming that the memories of the black boxes were damaged. Who'd o fort ehh? First time in the history of air crashes and atrocities that the black box has been rendered useless. Guided missiles in the hands of misguided wackjobs.

[Theland]

Another piece of the jigsaw slots into place.

[Zacs-Master]

What can I say, you’re a genius, Baz

[Peter Pedant]

jaw sags
not at the AB rhetoric and conspiracy theory

but that the Iranians seems to have shot the thing down
my eyes bulge as I write

[Peter Pedant]

do black boxes survive having a missile explode near them?

[Zacs-Master]

Conveniently, no.

[royfromaus]

You were so correct you had to type it twice.

Congratulations.

[ichkeria]

The key part of a “black” box is effectively indestructible.
A missile strike from a SAM would be no big deal. The missile in any case would not hit the actual box in all likelihood

[ToraToraTora]

no wonder Trump's standing down, doesn't feel needed!

[drmorgans]

Interesting that the media reports from the US are suggesting that the missile strike could have been unintentional. No solace for the 176 people who died though.

[ichkeria]

Well I’m sure it was unintentional.
Why would the Iranians shoot down a plane of ... Iranians.
But shoot it down they seemingly did.