Woman was worried before her plane crashed in Iran, her husband says. She called him 20 minutes befo

[jpak]

Woman was worried before her plane crashed in Iran, her husband says. She called him 20 minutes before takeoff

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/09/middleeast/iran-plane-crash-victim-husband-speaks/index.html

(CNN)Twenty minutes before the plane took off from the Iranian capital, Sheyda Shadkhoo called her husband from aboard the flight. She wanted him to reassure her that everything would be fine, he said.

She'd taken three weeks off from her job in Toronto to visit her mother and sisters in Tehran. Her vacation was over, and she was heading back to Canada to her husband, Hassan Shadkhoo. Her flight was leaving from Tehran to the Ukrainian capital of Kiev early Wednesday.
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"I spoke to her ... 20 minutes before the plane took off," he said Wednesday night in Toronto. She was worried about the tensions between Tehran and the United States after President Donald Trump ordered the killing of a top Iranian general last week.

"She wanted me to assure her that there wasn't going to be a war. I told her not to worry. Nothing's gonna happen," her husband told CNN's news partner CBC. "She said, 'OK. They're telling me to turn off my phone. Goodbye.' That was it."

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[dchill]

1. This is on Trump.

Collateral damage.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. +1

[marble falls]

14. +1

He started it with no idea where it would go.

[dchill]

18. He saw it as risk-free to him.

He still does.

[marble falls]

20. In his heart he knows he's fucked. He thought he could rally a war fever ...

and it went over very badly.

[uponit7771]

19. +1

[a la izquierda]

2. Oh that is just so heartbreaking.

I am devastated for these people and their families.

[magicarpet]

4. Will they ever be able to prove where this aircraft seeking missile came from,...

.... the downed plane looked like confetti on the ground. Not one large chunk of wing or fuselage discernible at the crash site.

[MineralMan]

9. Yes, probably.

There is now video, apparently showing the actual missile strike on the plane. Trajectories might be able to be determined from that. It's also possible that there is satellite imagery that captured the event. However, that would be highly classified and would have come from a military satellite, so we might never see that.

Here's a link:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212857243

[magicarpet]

22. Oh thanks for the additional info Min/Man.

[Turbineguy]

5. Don't civilian aircraft have an IFF transponder?

The Iran Air plane shot down by the USS Vincense had theirs shut off.

[Miguelito Loveless]

6. The Vincennes' incident was way more complicated

and the U.S. was primarily at fault, later paying compensation in the hundreds of millions to Iranian families.

To give an idea of how interested the U.S. was in the truth, here is a quote from G.W. Bush, then VP:

"I will never apologize for the United States – I don't care what the facts are..."

The crew of the Vincennes were given medals, as was the captain.

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

[MontanaMama]

7. The MF has blood on his hands. eom

[kimbutgar]

8. This would not have happened if MF45 hadn't murdered The Iran general

Cause and effect. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Those people on that flight would be alive today if it wasn’t for mf45’s action. Those deaths are on him.

[James48]

10. K&r

This—>>>

[Johnny2X2X]

11. Tragic

Almost every plane crash has someone who died on it who told loved ones they thought they might crash before getting on it. It's nothing super natural at all, it's just there's a lot of people afraid to fly who tell people before flights that they're sure this one will crash. 99.9999999% of the time they're wrong and make it to their destination and no one hear's about their dire prediction.

[Traildogbob]

12. Obama

A right/white winger called Thom Hartmann today claiming the plane was headed to Ukrain with people on board with facts about Biden, Obama and Hilary corruption in Ukrain and that the Hilary/Obama deep state shot the plane down to destroy the evidence that was to be delivered to Gooliani. And these people vote while 100 million are too busy or don't want to talk politics.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. They can twist any scenario and manufacture something from sand

All dining on pizzagate, but they themselves believe it

[lpbk2713]

13. That will haunt him for the rest of his life.

Add one more family torn apart by Trump.

[marble falls]

15. It'll dog his heels but he is incapable of being haunted by conscience.

[lpbk2713]

17. ...

The husband and close family members will be haunted by the effect of Trump's presidency.

Sorry for not being more specific.

[XRubicon]

21. Commercial air flying on the day of the missile attack is criminal

The airline should have canceled all flights for at least a few days