Originally Posted by
andrasz
One lingering question remains, and hopefully the investigaton will shed some light on this. There appears to be a discrepancy between the last transponder position and the postion of the missile strike. This may of course be easily explained by the known granularity of FR24 data, but in theory it COULD indicate a loss of transponder signal, which under the stressed conditions could have triggered the events.
Would it not be the case that the Air Defence unit be notified by ATC that the aircraft was about to depart on a specified SID.
If this coordination failed to occur, then perhaps you could see how a trigger happy ADU would react?
If the whole truth is ever told, the human factors with sizeable SWISS CHEESE will undoubtedly emerge.