Early this morning, a Ukranian 737 passenger jet crashed in Iran, killing 176 people. The first news reports say it was an accident. It appears a bit suspicious to me, coming just one day after Iranian missiles hit US military bases in Iraq. There are whispers that this jet was actually shot down. What do you all think?
Here comes my superior expert analysis. I think that Iran sabotaged one of the engines to explode at an altitude of around 20,000 feet. Thereby they could attempt to blame the United States for shooting it down, but their own attempt backfired when the engine blew up too soon just after takeoff, that ruined their plan to pretend that Trump shot it down.
It wouldn't be very smart on the Iranians part to do this so soon after firing the missiles into Iraq.
Not sure. They may have thought it was a US plane coming in to drop a bomb. I'm not sure that is possible with a passenger jet, though. The thing that bothers me is, they refuse to turn over the flight recorder to Boeing.
This has not been a good season for the Iranian leaders. They rocket a base in Iraq, killing an American contractor. So we attack the headquarters from where these rockets originated, killing a couple dozen of their fighters. Then Iran backed protesters storm our sovereign Embassy in Iraq and set it afire. So we kill their General Soleimani and six of his cohorts behind these doings. And Iran has a massive funeral for Soleimani, chanting death to America, and they wind up trampling nearly sixty of their own to death and sending hundreds more to the hospital. Then they fire rockets at two bases in Iraq as a statement in honor of Soleimani, and almost immediately one of their own commercial jetliners takes off and falls from the sky, killing all 200 or so passengers on board. If I worked in the Iranian government, I think I would call in sick.
Looks like your response is very close to the truth. The engine wasn't sabotaged, but it appears it was shot down by the Iranians. I was so hoping the Iranians weren't involved in any kind of way.
