Talk about bad timing for Iran.
A 737 going to Ukraine just crashed in Iran due to technical issues just after takeoff. If I was them, I'd be sweating bullets.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...er-jet-crashes-in-iran-due-to-technical-issue
Have you ever seen an aircraft crash site? Other than a crash during takeoff or landing at near zero altitude, if one falls from the sky as this one did from just over 7000 feet, there won't be anything left bigger than your forearm. The huge fireball in the video is the full load of fuel sufficient for the flight duration exploding on impact. I'm putting my money on aircraft malfunction. Ukrainian airliner, flying to Kiev, with nearly all of its passengers Iranian students returning to school in the Ukraine, plus a couple dozen foreign passengers. OTOH, a grossly negligent shoot down by idiot Iranian air defense personnel, or some other radical loony with a "zip gun", wouldn't surprise me. In the Conspiracy Theory Column, there's a less likely possibility of a false flag deliberate shoot down. Such a perfidious and treacherous act would be well within the realm of the morally and ethically bankrupt Ayatollah and his government cronies - and Putin's as well. Iran stating it's not going to give the black boxes to Boeing doesn't surprise me. The Ukraine, however, has a legitimate claim to them as it was their flagged airliner that went down.
John
I believe so.
Too slow, all modern SAMs pretty much solid fuel. Fire trail sheds visibly hot debris at ~:08-9 seconds, likely internal engine parts or part of the airframe. Whatever happened happened off camera
Catastrophic failure of a CFM56 certainly possible (esp. if poorly maintained) but very unlikely. If only one engine failed, a/c should still be flyable if not overloaded. More here than meets the eye
Iranian official tells state television that his country can hit a hundred other American targets if the Trump Administration retaliates.
This is one of the few times I really do have a worry when it comes to Trump's attitude. Maybe I'm pessimistic and just think he's the type to ignore the "win" and take this bait. Or, alternatively, maybe he's surrounded by far smarter people that realize this is an empty threat, and the best course of action is inaction.
Have you ever seen an aircraft crash site? Other than a crash during takeoff or landing at near zero altitude, if one falls from the sky as this one did from just over 7000 feet, there won't be anything left bigger than your forearm.
So you wanted Trump to retaliate even though there were apparently no US casualties? The whole point was about Trump exhibiting restraint when people were'nt so sure that he was capable of doing so.
Well well well. That's certainly not normal.
So far all I've heard this morning is indicating it was mechanical issues that caused the plane crash. Not really surprising given Boeing's recent history.
The first thing to note about the crash of Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 is that the aircraft was a Boeing 737-800, a different model to the 737 Max, the type which was grounded last year after two crashes in five months.
The 737-800 - part of Boeing’s 737 Next Generation (NG) family - does not have the “MCAS” control system fitted to the Max, and which is blamed for the two crashes.
A modernised version of the 737 classic model dating from the 1960s, 737 NGs are one of the most popular airliners ever.
More than 7,000 737 NGs, of which about 5,000 are the 800 model, are in service and the aircraft has a very good safety record. Prior to PS752, there had been nine accidents involving the aircraft type which have resulted in fatalities.
One was the result of a mid-air collision, and all but one of the rest have been attributed to either weather problems, pilot error, maintenance issues or a combination of these factors. The final incident saw an engine failure which sent debris into the cabin, causing the aircraft to decompress. A passenger was partially sucked from the aircraft and later died from her injuries.
Overall, the 737 NG has a fatal crash rate of 0.06 fatalities per million flights according to data from Airsafe, making it one of the safest aircraft in service.