Boeing 737 NG CRASH in Iran

[TeleStratMan]

The preliminary reports sure sound like Iran shot down the Airliner with a missile.
Especially with all the activity last evening USA Time.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ira...ctims-timeline-2020-1?amp;utm_medium=referral

 

[GlockPride]

Little doubt that an S-300 can bring down a 737 traveling along at 8k feet.

 

[JD8]

They were REALLY quick to cite "mechanical failure."

 

[dennishoddy]

The fact that they will not turn over the black box, points to a jittery missile battery commander that thought he was targeted by a Predator drone, and gave the order to fire.

 

[AKJ20]

Iran has very old, Russian and Chinese Sam sites that are flakey.
After firing missiles into Iraq, every Sam site in Iran was turned on.
Waiting for Trump to attack.

This is why Iran Keeping the black box.

 

[Shadowrider]

They were REALLY quick to cite "mechanical failure."

It's like they knew about it. Or something...

 

[JD8]

It's like they knew about it. Or something...

Apparently their Aviation Crash forensics is light years ahead of anyone else. You'd figure someone would stop them and say...hey, lets at least make it look like there was an investigation and it was mechanical, because hey guys, this looks like we are guilty lol. Plane was still smoking.

 

[Okie4570]

https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukrai...i-aircraft-missile-pentagon-officials-believe

 

[TeleStratMan]

https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukrai...i-aircraft-missile-pentagon-officials-believe

It blows my mind that the Iranians and world politicians think we the people are that stupid to believe their story about engine failure when the pictures and videos show the Scatter Pattern of the wreckage.
Once I saw the pictures and videos of the crash sight it was clear that the aircraft experienced complete Structural Failure in Mid-Air.
This was most likely by a missile or bomb on the aircraft. It was quite obvious with all the Missile Activity during the crash what happened.

 

[tRidiot]

Wouldn't we think that US force in the area would have had all their radar cranked up to the maximum during this timeframe? Knowing there was a missile launch from a possible AA battery would be child's play for an Aegis cruiser or an AWACs plane, even out to a range of several hundred miles with a plane at an altitude of 8,000 feet - or so I would think. And Lord KNOWS we had some of those in the region at the time, amiright????

I'm not an expert on military technology - but I have read a lot of Tom Clancy books.