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Old 10th Jan 2020, 03:54
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Originally Posted by Takwis
27 flights went in and out of the Tehran airport...WITH TRANSPONDERS working. Something happened to this airplane, that cut all of it's communications, including transponder.
But the transponder WAS working. As evidenced by flightradar24 having the flight path.

The video showing the alleged rocket impact on the plane was geolocated, it was made very close to the point of the last transponder transmission. So the failure of the transponder is the consequence of the plane being shot down, not its cause.
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