Originally Posted by
andrasz
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.
I don't think so. IF target tracking / IFF had lost transponder signal after the last plotted point, AND IF this fact alone was enough to trigger, THEN the missile would have been fired at a successive time (order of 10 - 30 secs ?), so the hit point would be more to the West, and the crash site not the same. To me it seems that timing of events is consistent with the hit being very close to the last transponder data.