Originally Posted by
Andy_S
Actually, it suggests that someone needed to remove the evidence from the scene very quickly.
Of course it does. But who, but the most incompetent of the kind would want to leave a smoking gun behind.
The whole question was about motive. To put it another way, was the target the intended victim.
As I recall from earlier discussions, some of which appeared most authoritative, the aircraft was very close to the limits of effective range of the missile.