Iran 'mistakenly shot down Ukraine jet'!

[scurvy]

US officials say they believe the Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737-800 was hit by a missile, CBS says.

Ukraine earlier said it was examining whether a missile strike brought down the aircraft - but Iran ruled this out.

The crash came just hours after Iran carried out missile strikes on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq.

CBS News quoting US intelligence said a satellite detected infrared "blips" of two missile launches, followed by another blip of an explosion.

Meanwhile, Newsweek quoted a Pentagon and a senior US intelligence officials, as well as an Iraqi intelligence official as saying they believed the Ukrainian plane was hit by a Russian-made Tor missile.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday said "I have my suspicions" over the plane. "Somebody could have made a mistake," he said.

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

 

[imhotep]

Suspect that two SA-15's shot down the plane. Still unconfirmed but appears to be very much probable.

 

[N A K A M U R A]

US officials say they believe the Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737-800 was hit by a missile, CBS says.

Ukraine earlier said it was examining whether a missile strike brought down the aircraft - but Iran ruled this out.

The crash came just hours after Iran carried out missile strikes on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq.

CBS News quoting US intelligence said a satellite detected infrared "blips" of two missile launches, followed by another blip of an explosion.

Meanwhile, Newsweek quoted a Pentagon and a senior US intelligence officials, as well as an Iraqi intelligence official as saying they believed the Ukrainian plane was hit by a Russian-made Tor missile.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday said "I have my suspicions" over the plane. "Somebody could have made a mistake," he said.

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

 

[D_Mad]

US officials say they believe ​

 

[helplesser]

iran has spoken

 

[YelaWolf]

ටයිටල් ඵක ඵකක් නිව්ස් ඵක තව ඵකක්..

 

[dayt0na]

The odds are very high!

 

[Max_Knight]

BUMP

 

[2osama]

දෙයියන්ගේ නිවුස් ​

 

[obirin]

Families wiped out in Iran plane crash

 

[imhotep]

So many under 10s as well.

 

[krizta]

So it's confirmed
https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1215352457972404226?s=20

 

[imhotep]

Nothing is confirmed yet. Hope the black boxes can shed some light. It cannot be just coincidence that the aircraft just went down, given the current situation.

 

[imhotep]

Suspect that two SA-15's shot down the plane. Still unconfirmed but appears to be very much probable.

Most pundits are now silent......

 

[imhotep]

The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force said Saturday he informed authorities on Wednesday that a missile had downed the Ukrainian passenger plane.

Brigadier-General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh said at a press conference in Tehran that after he told senior IRGC members about it, the general staff of the Armed Forces formed its own investigative team, from which he was excluded.

Hajizadeh partially blamed the US for the downing of the plane, saying Iran was already on high alert following the US’s warning that it could target 52 sites in Iran, and amid rising tensions with the country.

He said the plane was shot down by a short-range missile and was misidentified as a cruise missile by an air defense operator.

The operator identified the plane as a cruise missile but was unable to contact the central air defense command to confirm it. So he had to choose between shooting it down or not, and he choose to do it, Hajizadeh said. The operator had 10 seconds to make a decision.

Hajizadeh accepted full responsibility for the incident and said once it became clear what had happened, he thought: “I wish I was dead.