re: #149 Dr Lizardo
Good to see that Iran fessed up - a lot of people (here and elsewhere) correctly recognized that it was an accidental shootdown, and most likely caused by a lack of communication between ATC at Khomeini International Airport and Iranian air defense forces.
To this day, the Russians refuse to acknowledge they accidentally shot down Malaysian Airlines #17.
The Iranian government may have figured that the jig was up:
Source in the Ukrainian investigation commission says found direct evidence of #PS752 shootdown by missile about 10PM yesterday. It was a fragment of the cockpit with visible missile damage. TOR-1 struck the plane right below the cockpit, source says. https://t.co/ZllMHMZn0c
— Olga Tokariuk (@olgatokariuk) January 11, 2020
I assume that the aviation minister and a few others will be underbussed.