No doubt President Trump will get blamed. By the DemocRATS and the Iranians.
Hmmm. I wonder if there were any Burisma executives on that plane. Or is Iran a popular holiday destination for your average Ukrainian?
Probably accidentally shot down by trigger-happy, panicked Iranian Anti-aircraft artillery expecting American air power.
Anyone missing a MANPAD?
That vid reminds me of footage of TWA800.
It flared up then plummeted just like that.
Some still believe it was shot down by a missile fired from a US Navy ship during a training exercise.
Somebody probably forgot to disconnect the spark plug in the empty center fuel tank.
wtf
Gosh, why wouldn’t Iran shut down air flights? So dangerous for flights to continue whilst they are shooting off missiles at US bases. Where is their intelligence & common sense? It’s like the 35 people who died at the funeral of Soleimani. They were trampled to death by the crowd. They need to change their faith.
Thank God we didn’t retaliate tonight. The left would LOVE to blame this on Trump. Add it to articles of impeachment.
One has to question the wisdom of running commercial air traffic on a night where your entire country is bracing for a massive air attack. This makes me sick to my stomach and angry that nobody thought this might be a bad idea. It is likely that some poor moron thought they were under attack near a commercial airport.
Based on the video the plane is clearly on fire and breaking apart as it descends.
Those poor souls.
technical problems is what reuters says
Bet it’s got a hole in it. Well did have...
Did the Iranians shoot this plane down thinking it was American??!
Sorry about the dead but, Why is Ukraine operating an airline out of Iran? Don’t we have sanctions against Iran? Wasn’t Ukraine just at our door with their hands out? Didn’t we just have hearings about our little ally buddy, poor, pitiful war-torn Ukraine? What kind of kabuki theatre is going on here?
Dear God!
It might be dangerous to run a sortie into Iran, having to avoid all the Iranian friendly fire fatalities.
My guess - mistakenly shot down by Iran?
Second question...
Why would 180 people from Ukraine want to go to Tehran?
They are not neighbors.
Kiev to Tehran is almost 2,000 miles.
an iranian defensive ploy to stall u.s. retaliation...
The object reversed direction very quickly, twice. I don’t understand how an airplane could have done that.
Shot down......737’s don’t crash from 8,000 feet from an engine failure, they trim the jet and return to the airfield. The video shows a large fire and debris coming of the aircraft in a shallow dive. Shot down after loss of engine and flight control and or dead pilots in cockpit.