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A fire in the engine is not enough to turn a 737 into a huge burning fireball that crashes within 20 seconds. Regarding the missile theory: if it was a missle,
by sparkling 7y ago
A fire in the engine is not enough to turn a 737 into a huge burning fireball that crashes within 20 seconds.
Regarding the missile theory: if it was a missle, it was probably accidential. The majority of passengers on board were Iranian citizens.
- shuckles 7y agoRemember Stuxnet?
- dilyevsky 7y agoPretty sure russian/chinese SAMs don’t run windows
- iamaelephant 7y agoWhat makes you pretty sure of that?
- dilyevsky 7y ago* Most of them were made before it was even a thing * Precisely for reason above
- mikejb 7y ago> Regarding the missile theory: if it was a missle, it was probably accidential. The majority of passengers on board were Iranian citizens. Unless it was a non-Iranian missile, or a rogue actor. (At this point, it's all speculation)
- est 7y ago> turn a 737 into a huge burning fireball From a suggested twitter video. No affirmative source yet.
- p_l 7y agoUnless the engine blades detaching ripped apart something critical, as happened several times on different aircraft, and crucially, twice on exactly this model with this engine from similar manufactuer time.