[teruakohatu]

Recently in DC they detected a plane that did not respond to warnings. The optical system then also detected the plane and panic ensued. Problem was the radar system was showing a phantom and the optical system saw a nearby plane and thought it was confirming the phantom.

Tldr; it's complicated

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31222/mysterious-airsp...

[dmix]

As we saw with both Iran and Russian AA teams shooting down passenger jets...

[audiometry]

Don’t forget USA navy vessels shooting down passenger plane.

[dmix]

Hopefully the US has learned something in the past 32 years since that incident. It seems that even our allegedly sophisticated adversaries haven’t in the present time.

At least the Russian team was merely operating a Buk in a clandestine op in the middle of a field in Ukraine (and the US ship was technically in Iranian territorial waters in 1988 during an actual war), I’m curious what Iran’s excuse was shooting it down in their own property?... maybe we’ll learn more about it eventually. Bellingcat was able to provide the actual team member names and wiretaps of the Russian soldiers.