Thread: Sadly, 176 people have died in air crash in Iran

The latest claim is an engine fire. These seldom bring down a jet aircraft if handled correctly. I’m in the sim doing my 6-monthly check, and ironically that’s one scenario we had.

I’m more suspicious about the sudden and complete loss of comms airborne. Not saying it’s the cause, but a sudden and complete loss like that smells of something very quick and very destructive. Like an explosive device...

Originally Posted by Hugh Jars

The latest claim is an engine fire. These seldom bring down a jet aircraft if handled correctly. I’m in the sim doing my 6-monthly check, and ironically that’s one scenario we had.

I’m more suspicious about the sudden and complete loss of comms airborne. Not saying it’s the cause, but a sudden and complete loss like that smells of something very quick and very destructive. Like an explosive device...

which would explain why they don't want NTSB to get the BlackBox .

Politics and conspiracies aside, the only way the NTSB might become involved is :
1. It’s an ‘N’ registered aircraft;
2. It was any state’s registered aircraft that crashed in the US or its territories ;
3. The safety bureau of the country in which the aircraft crashed requested expertise that it didn’t have itself, such as the capability to decode the DFDR.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Most notably, in Ukraine, the owners of the plane!

I seem to recall the US Navy brought one down somewhere, the computers thinking it was an incoming missile.

I stand to be corrected though.


Edit Iran Air Flight 655 - Wikipedia

yes. From memory, an Iranian plane over the Persian Gulf. Fairly soon admitted to from memory.

Looks increasingly like an "accidental" shoot-down by Iranian defense system!

Really? Haven't seen that anywhere yet.

The Trigger Puller/Squeezer will be for the high jump or the long drop, whichever is in use there.



EDIT. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/iran-plane-737-crash-in-tehran-was-it-shot-down.html

Maybe they thought it was another Drone?

Originally Posted by 4bee

Oh John, you are a cynic.

Has happened before though.

Coincidentally, in The Ukraine last time. MH17.