@Paraic: And mostly Iranian born Canadians….

@Paraic: I imagine US citizens in Iran are as rare as hen’s teeth

@Jackie Culligan: According to the Canadians now too.

@ihcalaM: Same thing.

@JackSimpson: That’s like calling Irish people….. But besides that, why doesn’t Iran give the Black box to the French? Hmmm!

@Jackie Culligan: According to the masturbating Americans… that is what your ‘wanks’ reference literally means. Great input there on your behalf.

@Jackie Culligan:
Remind you of anything?
https://twitter.com/RedRaven1776/status/1215391316575772673?s=09

@Jackie Culligan: According to the mastur#ating Americans… that is what your ‘wanks’ reference literally means. Great input there on your behalf.

@Sinéad: ok I got it the first time. Too many wanks in the area.

@rumug: The “word” didn’t come from the White House. The Pentagon via US & Iraqi Intelligence believe the plane was hit by a Russian Tor missile.

@Clifford Brennan: *Russian made

@Clifford Brennan: Good news for the manufacturer’s, missile works well and plane didn’t spontaneously combust on it’s own.

@SilexFlint: Who knows? Just helping the mug out.

@rumug: I’ll never forget that time the White House told us that the Navy Seals stormed that hospital in Baghdad to rescue Private Jessica Lynch in an epic gun battle. Except no one told Sky News, who had a reporter live in the hospital at the time. She was interviewing the lovely medical staff who treated had her and also the receptionist who explained that a colleague of Pvt Lynch had called by moments earlier, signed the necessary paperwork for her release and brought her out to his vehicle with the help of a kind staff member.

@SilexFlint: Its a Boeing. These days you wouldnt be surprised if it spontaneously combusted

@Paraic: Your facts are all wrong. It was a hammed up rescue mission but nothing you have stated is correct. Why bother telling lies?

@Clifford Brennan: What facts did he get wrong exactly??

@Clifford Brennan: The only lies are coming from the WH. I watched the Sky News report with my own eyes after coming off a night shift in 2003. They covered up the whole thing up immediately. 20 mins later Sky news on the hour reported the White House “Special Forces” version of events and never played the report again (uncharacteristically). I would have doubted myself if it wasn’t for the fact that Jessica Lunch later testified before the house oversight committee because the whole BS story didn’t sit well with her moral concience. It simply didn’t happen.

@rumug: Here’s footage just posted to twitter of the missile hitting the plane:

https://twitter.com/Roman_012/status/1215335999997448195?s=19

@Paraic: What didn’t sit with her was the story of her heroic fight against the ambushers. She lost a lot of her friends that day – but her weapon jammed and she was unable to fight back. She was taken to Nasiriya hospital. Special forces did retrieve her. They did ham it up – a lot. The doctor taking care of her had attempted to bring her to an Army checkpoint but was fired upon so they brought her back. Anecdotal stories from 17 years ago can be discounted. There’s no need to make things up, it was embarrassing but facts matter.

@Clifford Brennan: of course, blame Iran and Russia! Like hitting two birds with one stone!…

@David Jordan: Has this clip been verified as a missile hitting this plane? “Verification” by US funded propaganda arm Bellingcat does not count!

@Clifford Brennan: I didn’t mention the part about Jessica Lynch’s supposed heroics. It wasn’t what was being discussed. But that story was also false since you want to bring it up. She was unconscious as you know. You’ve stated that special forces rescued her and that it was “hammed up”. This is just a dishonest way of avoiding saying it was untrue. There was no “rescue”. That was a White House lie. The hospital receptionist stated that a “colleague” of hers called for her and signed her out. She had a leg injury so a hospital porter kindly helped wheel her out. She was not in the special forces so?? A gun battle was mentioned on CNN while Sky (in the hospital live) were not in the midst of one. Call me a liar when you find a copy of the Sky report. And stop relaying WH lies.

@JackSimpson: Verified by the NY Times Visual Investigations team, actually.

And before you go out berating the NYT as some sort of propaganda wing of the US military, they’ve exposed more Washington scandals than a lot of the news media put together.

Check nytimes.com or @malachybrowne on twitter for verification details.

@Paraic: Totally off topic from the missile investigation which is rapidly progressing as we speak, but usually the person making the claim (i.e. you making the claim about a sky news report exposing this supposed lie by the US military) provides the evidence, not the other way around.

You’ve just made the claim and essentially said “yeah the clip is out there gotta trust me”…

@Paraic: Well then you’re saying you know more about the rescue than Jessica Lynch does. I read an interview of hers where she stated that she was taken from the hospital by US special forces and initially feared it was Iraqi troops and she was about to die. She says the doctors were very kind but attempted to amputate her leg which she refused. I’ll take her version over yours if that’s OK?

@JackSimpson: The video was just geolocated to these apartments in outside Tehran at 35.489414, 50.906917 (copy and paste into Google).

https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1215342730810986496

The distance from the camera to path the plane flew (on flight radar) agrees with the delay in the audio on the video, ~10 seconds between visible explosion and noise of the explosion (speed of sound = 343m/s) gives a distance of about 3.43 km.

It is also thought that this was the 2nd missile to hit the plane, and that’s why the person was filming.

BTW: Here’s how the story appeared at the time: “Acting on information from CIA operatives, they said, a Special Operations force of Navy SEALs, Army Rangers and Air Force combat controllers touched down in blacked-out conditions. An AC-130 gunship, able to fire 1,800 rounds a minute from its 25mm cannon, circled overhead, as did a reconnaissance aircraft providing video imagery of the operation as it unfolded. “There was shooting going in, there was some shooting going out,” said one military officer briefed on the operation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/04/03/she-was-fighting-to-the-death/827181d6-bc41-4d13-b20c-ba95fedab997/
The article is fiction from beginning to end. It even aludes to to but rehashes Sky’s interview.

@Malachai: I never said the clip is out there. What I said was, the story was live and was quickly pulled. Good luck finding a copy! I know what I witnessed. 2003 wasn’t exactly an era of YouTube uploads. It was a time when DVD players had replaced VHS recorders in most homes and as far as I recall it was at an unsociable time when most were at work or in bed (not sure which) I had been on night shift and was off. But every word is true. Sky interviewed hospital staff and they all were friendly and seemed to have liked the girl. Switched to CNN to see what they had to say. Total different story, gun battle special forces. Switched back to sky, story now aligned with CNN and previous live broadcast never repeated…

@ihcalaM:
1) No thanks, I won’t waste my time. The NYT is akin to Pravda during soviet times.
2) “they’ve exposed more Washington scandals than a lot of the news media put together” – They’ve propagated more conspiracies than most other news outlets, you mean.

@Clifford Brennan: Post the interview that you read then.

@Paraic: https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132434

@Clifford Brennan: Thanks. In summary what I’m saying is that I know for sure that part B of the Jessica Lynch story is false (her rescue). You are saying that only part A (her heroic battle) is a lie. But that I’m a liar because I’m pointing out that I witnessed live footage from her private room in the hospital, where nurses a doctor and receptionist were interviewed seconds after her departure. The was no gun battle mentioned. No bullet holes in the corridor walls. Her nurse said that she had personally given her own blood to save her. The doctor spoke fondly of her and explained treatment. Receptionist said she waved her off… Believe what you want. If you want to believe 50% of a known to be 50% untruthful account, suit yourself.

@David Jordan: 1) “The distance from the camera to path the plane flew (on flight radar) agrees with the delay in the audio on the video, ~10 seconds between visible explosion and noise of the explosion (speed of sound = 343m/s) gives a distance of about 3.43 km.” – That’s fair enough.
2) Who/What is the original source of the video?
3) “The video was just geolocated to these apartments in outside Tehran at 35.489414, 50.906917″ – Can geolocation information be manipulated? I know nothing about this area.
4) Is it possible to find out when (exact date/time) this video was taken? Could it be an old video?
5) If it was a missile attack, surely there will be missile fragments. I doubt Iran will acknowledge it was their missile. Other possibilities: i) a MANPAD (many modern weapons have a ceiling of >5km and a range of greater than >3.5km); ii) An AIM-120D (range >160km) fired from an aircraft which could penetrate Iranian airspace (F22 or F35)?… We’ll probable never know for sure.

@Paraic: Nope. I’m still taking her first hand account over your own ever embellishing recollection of the brief clip you saw once 17 years ago. G’night everybody.

@JackSimpson: You’re beyond help I’m afraid, Jack.

If you think the NYT and the military industrial complex are working hand in glove (as I suspect you do) then you just haven’t been paying attention to their reporting over the past fifty years, since their publication and exposé of the Pentagon Papers.

@JackSimpson: There are allegedly missile fragments on site, pictures are up on the web but they were taken at a downward angle (i.e. away from buildings and landmarks) so geolocation is proving very difficult at the minute, we’ll see how that goes.

Conveniently, the Iranians seem to have bulldozed the wreckage at the crash site already, which will further hamper any investigation.

A missile from a non-Iranian source seems very unlikely considering the proximity of the plane to the airport in Tehran when the missile hit (the US/etc. don’t just have stealth jets doing laps around international civilian airports deep inside enemy territory for fun)

@Clifford Brennan: It wasn’t a “brief clip” Clifford, I didn’t say it was. It must have been the guts of 45 minutes, during which time the Sky reporter walked around various parts of the hospital interviewing everyone. Presumably the SAS fast roped in through the windows to whisk her away from harm once the interviews were over LOL!

@ihcalaM: Ok, if you have been lapping up their ‘reporting’ for the past 50 years, I’ll leave you to it. You’re set in your ways and nothing I say will change that.

@JackSimpson: It’s a shame you’ve missed out on some of the best investigative reporting the world has ever seen because you’ve twisted your mind into thinking it’s a propaganda machine.

What kind of propaganda machine repeatedly attacks its own alleged sponsor?? What a vacuous idea.

@Malachai: You made a statement that the US just wouldn’t have stealth jets inside Tehran / Iran several times now yet offer absolutely no credible support to the statement. Firstly, several US bases came under missile attack from Iran. I can’t think of any reason why they WOULDN’T immediately put stealth UAVs into the air to identify and intercept any further potential missile launches. This would not be limited to a single launch site. The idea that they would just hope that their automated anti-missile defences would take care of everything is bizarre. And of course the entire purpose of stealth aircraft is to operate behind enemy lines undetected. To state that they never do it (even when under attack) is naïve to the extreme. They absolutely would and most likely did.

@ihcalaM: 1) “There are allegedly missile fragments on site, pictures are up on the web” – Yes, I’ve seen them. Unsurprisingly, Eliot Higgins is pushing these images in a big way.
2) “The Iranians seem to have bulldozed the wreckage at the crash site” – What is/are your source(s) for this? From what I can gather, it is twitter speculation.
3) “A missile from a non-Iranian source seems very unlikely considering the proximity of the plane to the airport” – Why?
4) “the US/etc. don’t just have stealth jets doing laps around international civilian airports deep inside enemy territory for fun” – It’s like saying “Iranians don’t shoot down passenger jets with their own civilians for fun”. Anyway, the US wouldn’t need to. All it would have taken would be one quick incision into a weak spot in Iranian airspace (I’m sure the US know all about these weaknesses) – under the right conditions, a stand-off air-to-air missile could be launced from >150km away. Against a big cumbersome unmaneuverable target like a passenger plane, surely it’s a possibility? Imagine the message that would send to the Iranian elites, i.e. the US can penetrate airspace with ease. A MANPAD strike is another possibility.
5) It is possible Iran shot it down but atm I think it is not very likely. The passenger jet had just taken off from Tehran airport (as you said – deep in Iran) at a scheduled time. How could a target which likely would illuminate any radar screen be mistaken for an enemy that would have travelled hundreds of km to get to where it was. Such an illuminating target would have been detected as soon at it entered Iran if not before. Maybe they mistook it for a cruise missile (Tors are designed to take down cruise missiles) or a stealth aircraft (can’t imagine any other target getting that far into Iranian airspace) – but I’d imagine there is a big difference between a passenger jet and a cruise missile/stealth aircraft on a radar screen?..
6) Other possibilities = i) explosion on plane; ii) malfunction.

@ihcalaM: Oh and a final question. Might a civilian aircraft (just after taking off and climbing at night), look anything like a missile launch to a UAV operator, working from a shipping container in Texas? Totally impossible I guess you’ll say. Don’t worry I won’t be offended, yesterday people were having a go at me for even speculating that a missile shot it down. Water of a ducks back. Goodnight, I’m of to bed.

@ihcalaM: 1) “It’s a shame you’ve missed out on some of the best investigative” – Apologies for the delay in replying. After reading your comment, I felt a sudden urge to get sick. You’ve been institutionalised. 50 years of reading propaganda is bound to do that. The publication has been a pusher of wars for decades, wars that have lead to the deaths of millions. In more recent times it has been a pusher of conspiracies. I think I’ll pass.
2) “What kind of propaganda machine repeatedly attacks its own alleged sponsor??” – Sponsor as in DT? If so, that is a foolish question. The NYT has a liberal bias. Many of the liberals that contribute are liberal interventionists, i.e. they hate DT but surprisingly agree with certain foreign policy moves like being tough on Russia, Iran, etc – US imperialism. Do you not remember the liberal news networks that were overcome with joy when DT attacked Syria? Many neoconservatives contribute too. Many of these don’t like DT either (some do) but agree with certain foreign policy decisions. My point: It is possible to hate DT but support some of his foreign policy decisions/war-posturing at the same time.

@Paraic: Tehran is well inside Iranian airspace. If this were a border region, I’d be inclined to take the suggestion more seriously, but what you must know about stealth aircraft is that stealth is not absolute. The longer an aircraft spends in enemy territory, the higher the risk of detection. In this case, having F-22s/F-35s rocking around outside Tehran international airport would cause an international incident if the Iranians discovered it, and rightly so.

The missile attack on the US bases didn’t come from anywhere near Tehran anyway. Contrary to what you seem to believe, Iranian airspace is not full of supersecret US ninja jets waiting to pounce, nor do they scramble a country-wide fleet on a whim.

As for your UAV assertion – CUAVs aren’t really used for air-to-air combat. The first confirmed CUAV air-to-air hit was only recorded last year and that was in target practice, they’re made for hitting ground targets. Just doesn’t seem more plausible the US hit it, especially when there are probably far more Iranian SAMs in the area (seeing as it’s the capital) and it’s the job of an SAM to hit an aircraft.

@JackSimpson: 1) Eliot Higgins ‘pushing’ something doesn’t make it inherently malicious, but nice try. As I say, waiting on better verification for that, I don’t consider it hard evidence yet.

2) I’ve seen a few pictures and a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnnYePYwaRM @ 2:59) that, again, haven’t been verified, but seem pretty convincing.

3) See my reply above about stealth jets/UAVs – doesn’t strike me as very likely whatsoever, but I suppose we’ll find out more about the origin of the missile in the coming days.

4) The time doesn’t add up. The closest US air base I can think of to Tehran is Badrah and that’s like 750km away. The downed plane was in the air for two and a half minutes before the trouble started, that’s just not enough time, so the attack fighters would have to have been in the vicinity which as I say I don’t buy either. MANPAD? No way, unless the CIA now has Iranian operatives on the ground outside an airport with a Stinger at the ready…

5) I think we agree in a way – I think it would be a catastrophic failure of judgement from an Iranian operator to mistake one for the other, but the simple fact is that if we’re to assume neither side wanted to down a civilian aircraft, then somebody made a mistake, and we KNOW Iran has SAMs everywhere in their capital city whereas we’re speculating heavily about US capability. It’s probabilities.

@JackSimpson: 1) Simply untrue. Have you read the Pentagon Papers? They fought the US government (Nixon, warmonger-in-chief at the time) viciously in court for the right to publish what could only be described as a calamitous set of documents outlining the criminal way in which the US became embroiled in Vietnam. That’s hardly pushing war.

They’ve published plenty of things on either side on the Iraq war, more recently David Barstow’s expose of DOD’s covert funding of state propaganda in the mass media won a Pulitzer in 2009.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html?mtrref=en.wikipedia.org&gwh=C672D54D5278FFE08C6A741C1FD7FC99&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL

To paint it as a paper cheerleading for war is to be ignorant of the facts.

2) I meant sponsor as in the military-industrial complex, as I thought you were implying. I have no doubt it is anti-Trump, as any newspaper worth their salt should be, they’re a bit too faux-neutral if anything! Liberal interventionists may contribute, sure, but if I’m giving you *evidence* (not Op-Eds) from the NYT investigators it’s usually very sound. They get to the facts exceptionally well, the slight liberal spin afterward is pretty easy to see through if you’ve any sense.

@ihcalaM: Multiple weak arguments. UAVs routinely carry air to air missiles. Only being reported as being used once before, does not preclude them from being used now. The US constantly have UAV aircraft in the air above foreign soil. During the so called Japanese tanker “mine” attacks, the US had no less than 3 distinct aircraft above the Japanese tanker at the time. We only know about them because one was shot down and Iran reported that they realised that another was crewed so they spared their lives. The aircraft were an MQ-9 Reaper (a fighter UAV), RQ-4A (Targeting) and a Poseidon P-8 with a crew of 38.

@JackSimpson: you’d prefer the Russian MOD maybe? Beauty of Bellingcat is they don’t just verify -they show you HOW they verified and invite you to verify for yourself. So feel free to knock us out with your findings. But do knock off the hurler on the ditch routine. It’s wearisome.

@Paraic: I didn’t say it was impossible that it was a UAV air-to-air hit, just that it is an extremely uncommon event compared to the likelihood of an SAM taking down an aircraft (and we’re speculating about the presence of CUAVs, but we know there were SAMs around Tehran). As I say, probabilities.

@Paraic: the US killed a pr/ck in a foreign country. Hardly an attack

@Stephen Brady: They assassinated the 2nd most powerful person in Iran. Of course it was an attack on Iran itself.

@Stephen Brady: They murdered 10 officially credited Iraqi and Iranian personal on a diplomatic mission on the sovereign territory of Iraq. Hope that clears it up for you Pr/ck.

@Paraic: good man! It’s all sorted….tell all the authorities to step down their investigation, Paraic is the man.

@Stephen Brady: What ever country a plane crashes in always leads the investigation and only sometimes if that black box is damaged they will call in experts from other countries who have the technology to read a badly damaged box. No big story with that one and nothing at all strange with keeping the black box.

@Paraic: they should hand them over to a neutral air accident organization then

@Zippy: yes but the country where the jets were manufactured also has s right to be accredited to the investigation hopefully Iran if they refuse the USA will let someone else be involved

@Pat Joffre: I heard France have offered some help and more then likely will quietly be brought in on the investigation.

@John Mc Avinue: he was on the US terrorist list since 2002. He slaughtered unarmed Iranian protesters in their hundreds as well as orchestrating attacks on foreign soil against Iraqis Brits and Yanks. He had it coming. I’m only suprised he lasted as long as he did. Looks like shitposting Trump on Twitter wasnt a smart move.

@Stephen Brady: Good job the world police were on hand to take him out!! What bad guy is next to be assassinated?? Hmmmmmmm who to hate next!! We have the iran/Iraq/Afghanistan/NK covered and them pesky Russians!! Man I hate them with there inferring computer wiz kids..We have the good guys in the US keeping us all safe feeling blessed.

@Zippy: you would be speaking German if the US police as you call it didn’t come to the rescue in WW2

@Pat Joffre: I read somewhere yesterday that Boeing weren’t seeking to investigate. This was before any suggestion of a missile strike was reported in the press. But you have to assume that they are intelligent enough to know instantly that this was no “mechanical failure”. Not sure what their policy is with respect to investigating missile attacks though.

@Gav: wrong.

@Gav: is that the same way that the Germans now speak English because they lost the war?

@Paul Furey: anything else to add here without dressing up for kids panto?

@Gav: wrong. The Russia killed the most Nazis and lost the most people. The US have tried to airbrush the Russians out of history of WWII allied forces

@Zippy: good ol USA have to have an enemy you know? How else can it justify billions a year on defence spending, spending more than the combined 25 countries on the list 23 of which are allies!! No enemy questions asked???

@PMBinARG: considering even our own pro-US media are making it clear that the only diplomacy is coming from Iran, of course the narrative coming from Tehran is a lot more credible than the one from Washington. Then again, anybody that’s already passed their teen years should already know this by now.

@John Hazelnut: They took off from Tehran, its pretty much a given than the Iranian military will have AAA stationed around their capital city.

@Jonathan Morgan: Would the ballistic missiles being launched towards the US bases have been launched from Tehran, and would ballistic missiles have a hestseeking or radar ability to lock onto commercial aircraft?

@Jonathan Morgan: Commercial aircraft also have transponders, I would need to know if Iranian SAM crews had equipment to detect this. Commercial aircraft would be well lit as well. It seems peculiar, given the timing, but maybe it was in fact, an accident.

@Ger: you do know New York was the birthplace of the LGBT movement and had the largest LGBT parade in the world this year? San Francisco, Denver all incredibly open cities to homosexuals. But yeah, some guy lost his job one time so let’s focus on that.

@richiecranium: since 1979 between 4,000 and 6,000 people have been executed in Iran for their sexual orientation. Don’t compare. You’ll lose this one.

@richiecranium: stop with your bull!!

@Ger: “you’re not much better off being gay in the USA”- Seriously? Apart from the fact that gay persons are not publicly hung in USA. Or beaten to death as a court punishment. Cop on and at least research gay life in Iran before making such a ridiculous statement. On your last point, you are correct. Both regimes are despicable but for gays, Iran takes the trophy.

@richiecranium: liberals don’t want a war caused by an impulsive idiot president who hasn’t thought through the consequences.

@Dave Harris: and they’re not getting one? They got a dead terrorist instead

@richiecranium: you have named 3 cities in 3 states. You do know that there are 50 states, right? So in the vast majority of the United States you can legally be discriminated against including losing your job but you want to focus on the minority of places that are ok? And more than one guy has lost his job and if you cared enough to look up the stats instead of being flippant you’d see that.

@Ger: that’s a disingenuous comment ger. The laws don’t state “it’s okay to discriminate against gays”. They allow private companies to make their own decisions based on religious and civil liberty. Thankfully there is no US law that you can explicitly say is created to oppress homosexuals. May I remind you that they legalized gay marriage before we did.

@Ger: I know where I would rather live…

@Ger: Outrageous false equivalence. Do your reading on Iranian LGBT rights (or lack thereof) before making such a scandalous comparison again. Jesus wept.

@Ger: There’s a reason the journal comment section is famous and it’s this.
Iran has outlawed activity between members of the same sex as a crime punishable by death.
Stop with the hyperbolic statements because you dislike the US.

@richiecranium: Criticising the USA doesn’t mean supporting Iran. I would think it is stranger to believe the right care about homosexuals and women of colour

@KalEll: I never said it did. Just don’t criticize the USA if you can’t back it up.

@Kendra Jackson: Do we know if the missiles that were being fired at US bases were being launched from near the airport? Think about flight paths, like a plane from Kerry to London might be hit by a missile being launched from Cork, but probably not if the missile was being launched from Dublin to Belfast, that type of thing.

@John Hazelnut: Seen a report that Iranians would have automatic missile defense systems setup around airports ready for a tit for tat response. Too much of a coincidence to occur by chance within hours of attacking the American airport.

@Watchful Axe: That seems a plausible explanation.

@Jurgen Remak: no comment on the proxy war Israel is waging on Iran Jurgen? Seeing as you are the major Israeli proponent on here.

@Tom: hits to some rocks and maybe a bunker or two. They told the Iraqis when and where the rockets were targeted and that was passed to the personal on the base. They wanted to be seen to “strike back” but not actually kill anyone which would likely have forced Trump to retaliate.

@Dermot Foley: I had no idea you were awaiting comments from me. I do apologize.

@Jurgen Remak: hmm , they managed to hit the US bases in another country with missiles fired from Iran – they actually warned ahead to the Iraq to warn of the targets too – there is also satellite images of the bases been hit – the fact there was no casualties is not the same as not being able to hit – but hey don’t let the actual facts get in the way of your ramblings

@Dave Hammond: Ramblings? That’s a bit harsh. I’ve no doubt Iran pulled their punches but it also appears maybe 4 of the missiles failed to reach their target. The strength of Iran is in its proxy militias, intelligence networks, ability to use small forces (esp Quds). Those forces are formidable and I’m not questioning their overall strength. Sure they will inflict damage with missiles, but in a full scale war their conventional capability will be limited when the US strikes launch sites or other conventional assets.

@Tom: thank god the black box survived though.

@Seosamh Snr Nolan: Or it could be that the Iranians don’t trust the US not to fiddle the data to make it look like a missile strike.
It was done before with the mobile WMD systems in Iraq that didn’t exist.
Iran shooting down non-combatant aircraft would be a nice excuse to launch strikes on Iranian air defences???

@Seosamh Snr Nolan: why would they hand over the black boxes to a nation who doesn’t recognise international law and who relies on false flag events being believed for invasions!?

@Rochelle: TheJournal comment section is amazing.
Black boxes/flight recorders are not held by any state, the manufacturer and the International Civil Aviation Organization review them after incidents. That’s how we have transnational flights and agreements.
Only on the journal is there such utter nonsense about countries keeping black boxes.
A website where everyone is an expert in everything.

@Rochelle: I think the news and videos coming out this morning clarifies it was shot down by a Iranian missile & furthermore it is there obligation to hand over the black boxes .

@Pablo: Hope your eating pie .

@Mill Lane: Enough of pie for you as well ! Double helping .