Experts: 'Panic' and 'poor training' could have resulted in Iranians accidentally shooting down Ukrainian plane
Video footage that emerged Thursday showed the moment Western officials believe an Iranian surface-to-air missile detonated near a Ukrainian International Airlines jet carrying 176 people, puncturing the fuselage with thousands of shards of shrapnel and sending it crashing to the ground.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said intelligence pointed to an accidental missile strike. Story continuesHe said the crew operating the Tor system would most likely have been on high alert since the US assassination of Iran's top military commander, Qassem Soleimani, in Iraq. "So the crew are likely to have been scared. Scared too of the consequences from their own regime and superiors if they missed a potential threat in the event of a US attack."Portecting TehranOther experts cite data indicating the plane was traveling near an area about 12 miles northwest of Tehran's international airport, where a sensitive Iranian missile site is most likely protected by antiaircraft missile batteries.
"From what we know, the military base at Malard is of great importance for Iran's missile development," he said. The plane had also just taken off from a major international airport, and several other aircraft had taken a similar flight path from the airport in the early hours of Wednesday morning, in the wake of the Iranian strikes against the US, according to the flight data tracking site Flightradar24.
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