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2020-01-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Video shows Boeing 737 with 180 people on board on fire, crashing near Tehran
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Posted by Fred 2020-01-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 I thought the 737 Maxes were taken out of service.
Posted by gorb 2020-01-08 00:19||   2020-01-08 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Likely the old version, I'm guessing.
Posted by SteveS 2020-01-08 00:31||   2020-01-08 00:31|| Front Page Top

#3 From Twitter: Jordanian news outlet Al Hadath reported the Ukrainian aircraft was accidentally shot down by Iranian anti-aircraft units.
Posted by Glinter Jaique8353 2020-01-08 01:52||   2020-01-08 01:52|| Front Page Top

#4 ^I blame Trump!
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-01-08 02:03||   2020-01-08 02:03|| Front Page Top

#5 This wïll by far do more damage to Iran's current regime than Trump retaliating.
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2020-01-08 03:23||   2020-01-08 03:23|| Front Page Top

#6 So far it looks like Iran shot down their own plane with 176 on board by accident and 56 people were killed in a stampede at Soleimani's funeral. Iran better call off all weddings in a national emergency. It's hard telling how many people would be killed at these weddings in celebretory shootings.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-01-08 07:52||   2020-01-08 07:52|| Front Page Top

#7 ^The sad decline of the once proud Aryan race.
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-01-08 07:54||   2020-01-08 07:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Iran is refusing to hand over the black box.

Gee, I wonder why.
Posted by gorb 2020-01-08 08:06||   2020-01-08 08:06|| Front Page Top

#9 IIUC,

it wasn't an Iran Airlines plane, it was a Ukrainian Airlines plane

however most of the passengers were Iranian college students
Posted by lord garth 2020-01-08 08:33||   2020-01-08 08:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Have other 737s caught on fire then crashed? What caught my eye was, it is Ukrainian.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-01-08 08:35||   2020-01-08 08:35|| Front Page Top

#11 63 Canadians, plus Brittans per another report.
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2020-01-08 08:40||   2020-01-08 08:40|| Front Page Top

#12 From #10: The nationalities of those dead, according to Ukraine Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko, were as follows: 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, and 11 Ukrainians -- nine of which were crew members -- 10 Swedes, four Afghan, three German and three British.

63 Canadians? Does Canada have their own Tehrangeles?
Posted by Glinter Jaique8353 2020-01-08 08:43||   2020-01-08 08:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Canadians, plus Brittans per another report.

Well, lessee. They had to travel to iran at some point if they were now travelling from iran. Whatever their business or pleasure was in travelling there, it's concluded now.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-08 08:44||   2020-01-08 08:44|| Front Page Top

#14 The Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) shared a video online that claimed to show the plane catch fire as it descended. The video has not been independently confirmed.

“The only thing that the pilot managed to do was steer the plane towards a soccer field near here instead of a residential area back there,” witness Aref Geravand said. "It crashed near the field and in a water canal.” It last underwent routine maintenance on Monday, Ukraine International Airlines said.

"It was one of the best planes we had, with an amazing, reliable crew," Yevhen Dykhne, president of the Ukraine International Airlines, said at a briefing.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-01-08 08:45||   2020-01-08 08:45|| Front Page Top

#15 #12 Am I a bad person for thinking ... dogs ... fleas?
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-01-08 08:47||   2020-01-08 08:47|| Front Page Top

#16 Just a tad late in the telling I'd say:

Canada is urging Canadians to avoid non-essential travel to the Middle Eastern country "due to the volatile security situation and the regional threat of terrorism.

"Canadians, particularly dual Canadian-Iranian citizens, are at risk of being arbitrarily questioned, arrested and detained," the warning adds.

"Iran does not recognize dual nationality and Canada will not be granted consular access to dual Canadian-Iranian citizens. Canadian-Iranian dual citizens should carefully consider the risks of travelling to Iran."

My emphasis ref 'duel-cits'.

Link to CBC story found here.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-08 08:48||   2020-01-08 08:48|| Front Page Top

#17 Yes, yes. Oh, Canada, home of the hip cosmopolitan wonder boy Omar Khadr.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-08 09:00||   2020-01-08 09:00|| Front Page Top

#18 Could have been a Iranian-Chinese 'knock-off' of a Soviet SA-18 Grouse. Probably made locally at the Shahid Kazemi Industrial Complex in Tehran:

The Misagh-2 is an Iranian man-portable infrared-guided surface-to-air missile.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-08 09:00||   2020-01-08 09:00|| Front Page Top

#19 Don't think it a man portable IR SAM. Previous hits by them on modern 20K Lb thrust engines have damaged the exhaust but the engines kept running.

This (suspected) missile not only destroyed at least one engine and ruptured fuel tanks/lines but destroyed enough control surfaces/lines that the airliner wasn't able to turn around. Medium/long range radar guided SAM.
Posted by Glinter Jaique8353 2020-01-08 09:15||   2020-01-08 09:15|| Front Page Top

#20 Pilot error, watching CNN predictions.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-08 09:25||   2020-01-08 09:25|| Front Page Top

#21 Looking at pictures the engine failed and turbine blades pierced the wings and fuel tanks leading to the fire.

Now WHY the engine suddenly went kaput is another story.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-01-08 09:37||   2020-01-08 09:37|| Front Page Top

#22 My bet is on twitchy Iranian air defense forces lighting up a plane they though was the American counterattack.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-01-08 09:43||   2020-01-08 09:43|| Front Page Top

#23 /\ I'll take 'twitchy Iranian air defense forces' for $600. Alex.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-08 09:53||   2020-01-08 09:53|| Front Page Top

#24 Farshid! You forgot to switch the targeting system from civilian airliners to American fighter jets!!
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2020-01-08 10:02||   2020-01-08 10:02|| Front Page Top

#25 They would suspect the Americans to spoof any civilian transponders just like they would. Sort of like the Donks calling Trunk Klansman.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-08 10:11||   2020-01-08 10:11|| Front Page Top

#26 I wonder how many of the dual cit Iranian/Canadian passengers were heading to the US for mischief? Just a thought and should feel bad about it but ...
Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-01-08 11:36||   2020-01-08 11:36|| Front Page Top

#27 We likely had stealthy air assets in the area at the time. A factor?
Posted by Clyde Flaing8189 2020-01-08 16:44||   2020-01-08 16:44|| Front Page Top

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