What REALLY Happened to Flight 752?

The Iranian situation is getting curiouser and curiouser. The Iranian government has now admitted that they mistakenly shot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 as it was TAKING OFF from Teheran International Airport.

There are so many things “wrong” with this story that it will take some time to unravel the convolutions. Here are some of the conundrums.

The Iran government admitted that they shot down the aircraft in error. Why did they do that?

It was immediately obvious that the plane had been shot down on the basis of a video clip showing a surface to air missile impacting the aircraft. Therefore, the Iranian government had to admit that they fired the rocket that killed Flight 752, but the official explanation that the Iranian military mistook the civilian aircraft climbing away from the airport for an American cruise missile simply doesn’t hold water.

Any radar operator would have immediately recognized the radar signature of a commercial aircraft as opposed to the radar signature of a cruise missile. The Ukrainian aircraft, like all commercial jetliners, was equipped with a transponder designed to identify it to interrogatory radar inquiries. Since the plane was departing under the supervision of Tehran air traffic control system, it would have been virtually impossible for the Iranian…