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Creative Speculation

WheelWalker

(9,336 posts)

4. I will add that the two cases you mention (Vincennes and Donetsk) involve third parties

Reply to rampartc (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 10, 2020, 06:37 PM

Jan 2020

hitting (I believe) airliners in flight at altitude, do they not? Seems less than credible that an Iranian battery mistakes or misidentifies an aircraft within two minutes of takeoff from it's own airport. Seems to me the circumstances are significantly different than the cases you cite. Seems to me, anyway.