RLTrader wrote: ↑January 15, 2020, 3:28 pm
What happened explained
Ya couldn't make this ----- up if you tried - but wait, Veterans Today just did.
I googled the following passage from the linked article, eager to discover who the "Iranian sources" were:
Iranian sources have revealed that the pre-flight inspection checklist was not signed by Iranian airport engineers, however, the Ukrainian crew insisted on flying at their own risk and responsibility.
Dr google only throws it up in one other source - funnily enough, one probably even more nutty than Veterans Today.
https://southfront.org/how-and-why-iran ... an-boeing/
And what does this cesspit of disinformation and conspiracy theories have to say (my emphasis added):
It remains unclear how the Boeing 737-800 may have been mistaken for an incoming cruise missile, especially taking into account that this situation developed near the capital’s working airport. If one takes this explanation with a grain of salt, the scenario could have been the following.
The plane experienced some technical difficulties during or immediately after the take-off and deviated from the course moving closer to the IRGC military site. Information appeared that the preflight inspection checklist was not signed by Iranian airport engineers, but the Ukrainian side insisted to fly at its own risk and responsibility.
