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Old 12th Jan 2020, 17:24
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Richard W
 
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Originally Posted by WHBM
They could have always run FlightRadar24 of course … *
Provided it is accessible across the Iranian firewall!

However, there could have been a man with the information at his fingertips on the other end of a phone or other link. That'd work fine until communications went down or drastically slowed up. A declared contributor in this case is that communications weren't working properly - network overload, failure or jamming. Could the safety recommendation be better communications infrastructure for the IRGC Aerospace Force?
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