Iranian Missile System Shot Down Ukraine Flight, Probably by Mistake, Sources Say
Source: Newsweek
The Ukrainian flight that crashed just outside the Iranian capital of Tehran was struck by an anti-aircraft missile system, a Pentagon official, a senior U.S. intelligence official and an Iraqi intelligence official told Newsweek.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, a Boeing 737800 en route from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airpot to Kyiv's Boryspil International Airport, stopped transmitting data Tuesday just minutes after takeoff and not long after Iran launched missiles at military bases housing U.S. and allied forces in neighboring Iraq. The aircraft is believed to have been struck by a Russia-built Tor-M1 surface-to-air missile system, known to NATO as Gauntlet, the three officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, told Newsweek.
One Pentagon and one U.S senior intelligence official told Newsweek that the Pentagon's assessment is that the incident was accidental. Iran's anti-aircraft were likely active following the country's missile attack, which came in response to the U.S. killing last week of Revolutionary Guard Quds Force commander Major General Qassem Soleimani, sources said.
U.S. Central Command declined to comment on the matter when contacted by Newsweek. No reply was returned from the National Security Council or State Department.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/iranians-shot-down-ukraine-flight-mistake-sources-1481313
pangaia
(24,324 posts)9...8....7...
RockRaven
(14,967 posts)If he had not assassinated Soleimani, that plane would not have been shot down. Period. There is a direct causal link. Canada should sanction Trump and Trump admin officials personally.
PunkinPi
(4,875 posts)will any of our media people connect the dots? Nope...
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Trump started this based on a lie there was an imminent threat when they knew there wasn't. Trump assassinated the General to change the news cycles away from his being impeached and for personal political gains , not for a national security threat. The liar is responsible that happened . The world knows it to , and should now hold every republucan accountable by gathering dirt on all of them and exposing them , or this will only escalate, and get much worse, or trump has got to go , now , for this and everything he's doing. If not every corrupt republican needs to be voted out of office allowing this to happen.
SunSeeker
(51,557 posts)llmart
(15,540 posts)Yeah, right.
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)path of the missile. I can't see why they would.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)how about we all get a chance to look at the recorders then decide what happened.
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Javaman
(62,530 posts)Sgent
(5,857 posts)to violate treaty (ICAO) obligations. In my mind that means they believe whatever is on those memory cards will hurt them more.
James48
(4,436 posts)War crime.
Needs to be another article of impeachment.
Picture of a Tor M1 anti-aircraft system:
http://www.military-today.com/missiles/tor.htm
Marthe48
(16,962 posts)in other countries after a break. Their families got to see their beloved children one last time. What heartache for them. Ft
Scalded Nun
(1,236 posts)I would not put anything past Trump and his lackeys, and why should anyone believe anything he says? He touts our intelligence after declaring our intelligence agencies can't be trusted to tell the truth? The US has no credibility on anything anymore. We do, though, own assholery.
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)Bad things inevitably happen when a nation is placed on high alert as a result of their leaders being murdered and their national cultural sites threatened with annihilation by other (so-called) leaders. Trump created and nurtured the tense environment this tragedy occurred in. He's responsible for this.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)if not the Goal itself.
oldsoftie
(12,545 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,806 posts)Probably?
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)Those poor passengers...
Miguelito Loveless
(4,465 posts)Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Stampedes and shooting down their own civilian aviation. Pathetic.
machI
(1,285 posts)It is Trump.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)Hes a contributing cause.
Root cause was trying to take over our embassy and repeat Tehran 1979.
(Note this doesnt let trump off the hook. Just using the word correctly.)
Baclava
(12,047 posts)Ukraine has investigators on the ground, I imagine Canada will be sending theirs too
Kid Berwyn
(14,905 posts)It took off from Irans busiest airport, Ukrainian flight filled with people heading to Canada.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)on board. the future of the country
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)Putin was in Iran. Russia and Iran are friends. Putin hates Ukraine. Ukrainian airliner shot down. Hope I'm wrong.
Demonaut
(8,916 posts)Response to PunkinPi (Original post)
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NCProgressive
(1,315 posts)Trump has blood on his hands.