Originally Posted by
Lord Farringdon
The Iranians had just fired a bunch of ballistic missiles at US air bases in Iraq. What would you as an Iranian commander in the field think will happen next? Nothing? A strongly worded phone call to the Ayatollah from Trump? Or a US air strike on the airfield you are protecting? Poor communication would play a part along with poor training, poor leadership, tension and expectation if this accident ultimately proves to be a shoot down miscalculation.
i fully understand the circumstances and except your point, however the point I am trying to make is that if the Ukrainian flight was one of a line of aircraft at regular intervals taking off from an international airport on a well defined departure route then why was it singled out? Surely the weapons controller would have noted the regular flow of aircraft departing from this airport especially if any aircraft had already taken off ahead of this flight.