wildrider666
Master
Some years ago we did accidentally kill about 300 or so when we downed an iranian passenger play. It was mistaken identity.
Not quite the same. The Ship was directly involved in hostilities and chasing gunboats that fired on a U.S helo into Iranian Waters. Jet known to have launch from a Joint mil/civ airfield that based Iranian F-15s. Ship warned the unknown aircraft for several minutes (civ and mil freqs) before defensive action was taken and the jet shot down. 9/11 Demonstrated what commercial jets can do, so does Germanwings Flt 9525 with what a single pilot can do. The Ukrainian Jet just took of from an Iranian airport and was shot down within 2-3 minutes.
Interestin fact: The Ukrainian Flt and the Irainian Air Flt 655 (that we shot down) were to fly to the identical Route: Tahran-Bander Abbas-Dubai. There's been at least four other civilian jets shot down.
I surmise that the Jets Corporate HQ wanted their 3 year old jet out of Iran as they, like most of the World thought Trump was going to release an immediate shit storm. Bad timing.