Re: Another reading on the downing of a civilian airliner in Teheran Archived Message Posted by redadare on January 15, 2020, 6:57 am, in reply to "Another reading on the downing of a civilian airliner in Teheran" Interesting. Here's another possible perspective, which is also plausable. Disclaimer: This is from Jim Stone, who if you can get past his all too many faults, is usually excellent on the technical analysis. "Two minutes after take off, the transponder, communications, and lights on the aircraft were shut off, obviously via remote. It flew in this hacked configuration for approximately 4 minutes and 30 seconds before, in error, Iranian ground forces mistook it for a cruise missile and shot it down, with Iran's top nuclear physicists aboard. The plane was sent out during a no fly order to get the most important people (and their families) out of Iran before a war broke out, which Iran was expecting. The only question in this story now is who interfered with communications between the airport, the military, and the pilots, who went dark for a considerable length of time before the missiles were launched. Approximately 1 minute after the first missile was launched, a second one was launched though the first one probably would have downed the plane despite it not being on fire. Eight minutes after take off, it crashed." Message Thread: Another reading on the downing of a civilian airliner in Teheran - margo January 14, 2020, 1:22 pm Re: Another reading on the downing of a civilian airliner in Teheran - Gerard January 14, 2020, 8:45 pm Re: Another reading on the downing of a civilian airliner in Teheran - Tomski January 14, 2020, 11:43 pm Re: Another reading on the downing of a civilian airliner in Teheran - Gerard January 15, 2020, 11:26 am Re: Another reading on the downing of a civilian airliner in Teheran - redadare January 15, 2020, 6:57 am Re: Another reading on the downing of a civilian airliner in Teheran - John Monro January 15, 2020, 7:33 am Fool me once? - Gerard January 15, 2020, 11:32 am On being too generous... - David Macilwain January 15, 2020, 11:32 am Re: On being too generous... and Cui Bono - David Macilwain January 15, 2020, 11:53 am Cui Bono thanks for that! - Gerard January 15, 2020, 12:44 pm Hair trigger & nervous finger. - Ken Waldron January 15, 2020, 1:30 pm   Searching