Iranian General killed by US Drone.

[blueinsa]

Again, difficult to say. They would have been on different comm's networks for a start and not necessarily coordinating directly with the airport. In all the confusion they could quite easily be under the impression that the airport was shut to civilian traffic.

You must be bent in half by now as you try to make excuses for what the Iranians have done mate.

 

[blueinsa]

You are presuming the missile batteries IFF receiver was working or switched on.

Is it Trumps fault if it wasn't?

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

You must be bent in half by now as you try to make excuses for what the Iranians have done mate.

Not really. I just understand how difficult it is to operate in the kind of circumstances leading up to the shooting down of the civilian aircraft.

Is it Trumps fault if it wasn't?

No; clearly not. Either it was a maintenance issue, or someone made a mistake. It would not have been on purpose.

 

[Chris in London]

You are presuming the missile batteries IFF receiver was working or switched on.

Yes, with the Iranian military at a heightened state of readiness you are right to say I am assuming that it was plugged in.

 

[blueinsa]

Not really. I just understand how difficult it is to operate in the kind of circumstances leading up to the shooting down of the civilian aircraft.

No; clearly not. Either it was a maintenance issue, or someone made a mistake. It would not have been on purpose.

You're making some real assumptions here mate and it just comes across as you wanting to find an excuse for the shooting down of the aircraft?

I know that isn't your intention btw.

 

[Dax777]

Again, difficult to say. They would have been on different comm's networks for a start and not necessarily coordinating directly with the airport. In all the confusion they could quite easily be under the impression that the airport was shut to civilian traffic.

Lawd, TMT enough with the pandering. What confusion? There was no confusion. There was no alarm. The tenuous claim that some American TV hack put the whole of Iran in confusion is pathetic.


I repeat, if this was Iran's doing, then they are dumb fucks. Period.

The argument here is that out of fear of being attacked based on some 1 minute clip by a reporter boasting about his county's might. Suddenly, Iran is in a heightened state of alert and some dumb fucks commander shoots down a passenger airline r. What if an Iranian fighter Jets was flying towards the border, how would he know not to shoot that down too?

Seeing as you think it's a valid excuse to think these folks can't coordinate shit under their own control :(

Pardon the pun, but this excuse doesn't fly. Again, I repeat. If their was a heightened alert we'd have seen some basic protocols followed, no?

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Not really. I just understand how difficult it is to operate in the kind of circumstances leading up to the shooting down of the civilian aircraft.

No; clearly not. Either it was a maintenance issue, or someone made a mistake. It would not have been on purpose.

I'd argue it was almost certainly on purpose, Putin had his test case with Malaysian airlines, nothing will be done about it because the tragedy supercedes it. Job done.

 

[Dax777]

You are presuming the missile batteries IFF receiver was working or switched on.

So you are saying the Iranian military probably didn't switch them on?

How are they not dumb fucks again?

 

[Ban-jani]

Not really. I just understand how difficult it is to operate in the kind of circumstances leading up to the shooting down of the civilian aircraft.

Is this a qualified understanding?

I’m not being an arse, I hate Trump as much as you, I’m just trying to get my head around the fuckers shooting down a fucking passenger airplane without knowing.

 

[SilverFox2]

The main headline on bbc claims that Iran rebuffs the possibility it shot down the aircraft.
If the evidence is so compelling why would it do this and apparently bulldose evidence on site?