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General Category => World News => Topic started by: PeteS in CA on July 15, 2020, 12:57:03 am
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Iran blames wayward missile battery team for January downing of Ukrainian passenger plane
https://justthenews.com/world/middle-east/iran-civil-aviation-organization-releases-report-about-january-downing-passenger (https://justthenews.com/world/middle-east/iran-civil-aviation-organization-releases-report-about-january-downing-passenger)
iran is blaming poor communication and a wayward missile battery team for the downing of a commercial Ukrainian airliner in January, saying the team "misidentified the civilian flight as a threat" and failed to get approval from military leadership before firing.
Iran's Civil Aviation Organization released a report over the weekend concluding the Iranian missile battery that shot down the plane had not been appropriately reoriented after being moved from another location.
FWIW. The claim seems to be that someone forgot to tell the battery team that they were in the take-off pattern for Iran's major international airport. That seems to me, ummmmmm, implausible.