Passenger plane narrowly escaped Israeli attack on Syria: Russia

[TomSea]

Passenger plane narrowly escaped Israeli attack on Syria: Russia
Tehran-Damascus flight with 172 people on board was used by Israel as cover from Syrian missile systems, Moscow says.

An Airbus A320 with 172 passengers on board made an emergency landing in Russia-controlled Khmeimim Air Base after Syria's air defence nearly hit it because of Israel's air raids, Russian state news agency RIA said on Friday citing a Russian defence ministry spokesman.

The flight en route from Tehran to Damascus narrowly escaped "the lethal zone of artillery fire" as the Syrian air defence forces were trying to repulse an Israeli attack near Damascus on Thursday, RIA said.

Read more at: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/passenger-plane-narrowly-escaped-israeli-attack-syria-russia-200207065456327.html

[PeteS in CA]

So the passenger plane was nearly hit by Syria's air defences, but the headline says it "narrowly escaped Israeli attack"? Seriously?

[TomSea]

So the passenger plane was nearly hit by Syria's air defences, but the headline says it "narrowly escaped Israeli attack"? Seriously?

Actually, it says it "narrowly escapes Israeli attack",  okay, this is the proposed scenario, it happened with a Russian Cargo plane in the past and the Cargo plane went down because the Israeli warplanes were attacking targets in Syria and the Israeli warplane is able to "hide" behind, in this case, the cargo plane. This sounds like a bit of a repeat of that.

This was the incident, September, 2018 as to what is the truth here, I'm not saying that as I don't know.

Syria accidentally shot down a Russian military plane
By Barbara Starr, Ryan Browne and Nathan Hodge, CNN
Updated 4:08 PM ET, Tue September 18, 2018
Syria shot down a Russian military plane

Moscow (CNN)Syria antiaircraft fire downed a Russian military plane after an Israeli attack on Syrian positions, killing 15 people on board, Moscow said.

Russian state media said Syrian missiles shot the maritime patrol aircraft down amid an attack by Israeli jets in the Latakia region of northwest Syria.

Moscow blamed Israel for putting its aircraft in the line of fire and said it had only a minute's notice of the strike.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/17/politics/syrian-regime-shoots-down-russian-plane/index.html

This is what the al Jazeera article states:

"Israeli General Staff's military operations in air using passenger jets for cover or block of response fire by Syrian missile systems is becoming a typical trait of Israeli Air Force," the spokesman said.

...

..."Only thanks to prompt actions of dispatchers at Damascus airport and effective work of the automated system of monitoring air traffic, the Airbus-320 was escorted from the danger zone and assisted in successfully landing at an aerodrome at the Russian airbase Khmeimim,"

Agree or not, that is what they were talking about.... so, if the jet was escorted from the danger zone, yes, they somewhat "escape Israeli attack on Syria".

That's what we are talking about, whether it's true or not, each of us can decide.

@PeteS in CA

[Cyber Liberty]

Using civilians in commercial airliners as human shields sounds wrong.