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Iran Admits Plane Shot Down Accidentally
It's almost unprecedented for Iran to admit error like this. Are they honest in their apology or are the just trying to stop any repercussions?
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derek; //Dont forget the US shot down an Iranian passenger plane killing 290 people in 1988 (by mistake)//
Technology has moved on somewhat in 30 years, an accidental targeting of this airliner should not have been possible as it was transmitting active identification and position data and had just taken off from Tehran airport under radar control and full contact with Tehran Air Traffic Control, according to a pre-filed flight plan.
Tehran airport is also far from Iran’s borders. It is an unlikely place for the first contact to be made against a US missile or combat aircraft strike package.
The absence of warnings from radar and SAM units watching Iran’s borders should have indicated there were no US attacks into Iranian airspace. Flight PS752 should not have been identified as hostile.
It may never be known if the operators manually overruled automatic safety procedures that may have made such an accident possible.
Technology has moved on somewhat in 30 years, an accidental targeting of this airliner should not have been possible as it was transmitting active identification and position data and had just taken off from Tehran airport under radar control and full contact with Tehran Air Traffic Control, according to a pre-filed flight plan.
Tehran airport is also far from Iran’s borders. It is an unlikely place for the first contact to be made against a US missile or combat aircraft strike package.
The absence of warnings from radar and SAM units watching Iran’s borders should have indicated there were no US attacks into Iranian airspace. Flight PS752 should not have been identified as hostile.
It may never be known if the operators manually overruled automatic safety procedures that may have made such an accident possible.
Khandro, who knows how up to date the Iranian tech is? I could well imagine them using equipment 25+ years old.
I think it was an accident. It's not in Iran's nature to apologise, even when they are in the wrong. I don't think they'd apologise for something they meant. They'd see it as a show of weakness.
I think it was an accident. It's not in Iran's nature to apologise, even when they are in the wrong. I don't think they'd apologise for something they meant. They'd see it as a show of weakness.
The EU are advising not to fly over Iran.
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Despite "reluctantly" admitting to downing the flight by mistake certain "sources" are saying that this is not so. The Iranians shot the plane down because it contained members of American and British "personnel" that were instrumental in the identification and subsequent hit on Soleimani and his entourage who were in the process of exiting the country. Britain and the US have not made a "fuss" for obvious reasons. No links that I can post. Keep listening. If this is half true it illustrates the utter callousness and cruelty of these depraved nutters. Imagine them with a few nooks.
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