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Ukrainian Boeing 737 plane carrying 180 passengers on board crashed near Tehran International Airport [IMPORTANT: See Staff Post]
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Why is this person just randomly recording this one single plane?
737 MAX.
The recording begins mid-explosion
I suspect a lot of Iranians are looking to the skies watching for missiles/what not.
No, but it definitely makes it more difficult to rely on any hope that things will be fixed anytime soon.
I would guess that a plane going down a few minutes after takeoff would take a trajectory/altitude not normally seen by airplanes, so people on the ground would know what's up
Has to be one of the worse ways to go, I've flown so many times not worried if I'll make it or not. But when something has gone wrong, that must be one kind of terror you never experienced before.
Well shit, didn't even realize it was on fire.
There was a ball of fire floating through the sky, I would've recorded it too.
Lots of airports have hobbyists that hang out near them and film planes coming and going, so it's not all that weird to have film of it.
Though this looks like someone who caught it on their phone after ti caught fire.
Ugh, awful news adding to an already bad news day. RIP to the victims...
Agreed. Even though it wouldn't be a painful death most of the time, the moments leading up to it would be awful. And I fly overseas in three days.... ugh.
Agreed. Even though it wouldn't be a painful death most of the time, the moments leading up to it would be awful. And I fly overseas in three days.... ugh.
The video isn't fake. He speaks Farsi in the video and talks about the same location that this incident happened.
Iran's military defenses were probably on high alert at the time. It may be possible that Iran's defense system mistook it for a US military plane and accidentally shot it down. Fatal commercial aircraft crashes are very rare (this isn't the MAX version of the 737). Of course this could all just be bad timing and it may of been a true technical issue.
Uh...it's on fire and careening towards Earth?
Might be why....🤔.
Seriously though, if that's the plane, I'm expecting 0 survivors. RIP, the odds are probably next to nothing.
Well yea it's not fake but it's still unconfirmed that that's the plane that crashed in the video. I'm just saying to exercise caution and not to speculate.
Both events could be related but not in a nefarious way, e.g. because of pilot agitation, distraction or communication issues.
Oh fuck no. Hoped for minimal casualties but after seeing that video I doubt if anyone survived it. Brutal and agonizing way to go.
I think statistically (other than the fact that something like this happens quite literally less than one in a million flights), most accidents by far occur on the runway so if the plane takes off ok you can practically think of yourself in the clear.
Also the impact of a crash during take off is worse due to the airplane being full of fuel.
Rather still wait until its cross referenced and reliable sources say the video is legit. Otherwise we are just impulse posting news
I assume that the majority of planes are made by Boeing. If there aren't msny planes from other manufactorers flying then the ones crashing must be from Boeing.
"The 737 is operated by more than 500 airlines, flying to 1,200 destinations in 190 countries: over 4,500 are in service and at any given time there are on average 1,250 airborne worldwide. On average, somewhere in the world, a 737 took off or landed every five seconds in 2006."
This plane was 100% shot down by mistake and everybody is dead.
There's already plenty of data on flight trackers to back this up.
These are the unintended consequences of playing with fire that Donald Trump unleashed, just as Putin did in Ukraine those years ago.
Poor bastards on the plane.
Edit this is not a 737 Max and has nothing to do with the problems.they have.
There's already plenty of data on flight trackers to back this up.
These are the unintended consequences of playing with fire that Donald Trump unleashed, just as Putin did in Ukraine those years ago.
Poor bastards on the plane.
Edit this is not a 737 Max and has nothing to do with the problems.they have.
JFC what is this take. 737s are some of the best planes.
Im curious to hear what non state media reports. The timing is way suspect.
None of what I posted is a conspiracy.
There as fucking video of it and it's in flight radar, add a bit of logic and bobs your uncle.
Something happened to the plane mid air, and they don't blow up by themselves and unless an extremely rare catostrophic Hull breach occoured coincidentally on the exact night Iran is attacking the US forces and on high alert then it was hit by something.
I just dont see why Iran would fire a missile at a plane that just departed from their own airport.
Very true and imo the strongest case against it.
In part it reminds me of the concorde crash.
Occoms Razor makes me think the fighting and this must be linked. Or at least are likely to be.
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I can't conclusively say this plane was shot down but I don't trust the Iranian government report of it being a "technical failure". It is in the Iranian government's best interest to make it seem like it was a technical issue. Iranians would get pissed off if their own government ineptly killed Iranian civilians on a day when they were supposed to be getting "revenge" on America.
Remember that Iranian government is totalitarian theocracy that lies all the time.
If I had to bet money on this, I would bet on the truth being Iran accidentally shot it down. Commercial planes rarely have fatal crashes (of course it still possible, rare coincidences do happen sometimes).
Remember that Iranian government is totalitarian theocracy that lies all the time.
If I had to bet money on this, I would bet on the truth being Iran accidentally shot it down. Commercial planes rarely have fatal crashes (of course it still possible, rare coincidences do happen sometimes).
The plane crashed minutes after take of, then why was this plane targeted and not the dozens of others that would have been the vicinity? If normal civilian traffic was ongoing why this plane?
Either A: U.S. response after getting shot
B: Iran's mention of 290 culminating in this
or
C: Really, really, really, poorly timed accident. Like non-max 737s don't go down every month or any bit regularly. This is weird.