Ukrainian Aircraft down in Iran

[Lonewolf_50]

Originally Posted by Airbubba

Iran CAO chief's position on the new information about the shoot-down from a CNN interview:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51055219

I will hazard a guess that Baghdad Bob got a new job. (yes, that is a joke ... he was an Iraqi)

Ali Abedzadeh said, "if a rocket or missile hits a plane, it will free fall."

Unless it doesn't fall apart in a milisecond.

Abedzadeh asked, "How can a plane be hit by rocket or missile" and then the pilot "try to turn back to the airport?"

If there are pilots on board and some control authority is present, that's how.
For a fellow who is the minister for the CAO, he seems to know very little about flying.

However, he also added that, "the black box of this very Ukrainian Boeing 737 is damaged.
Ukrainian Aviation experts arrived here in Tehran today. We had a session with them. From tomorrow they will start decoding the data."
"If the available equipment is not enough to get the content" Iran will outsource the boxes to "the experts from France or Canada," Abedzadeh said.

Ended on a positive note

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51055219