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Re:Iran crash: Ukrainian passenger plane crashes with 170 on... by sparkling on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @02:41AM (#21989219)
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.

Re:Iran crash: Ukrainian passenger plane crashes with 170 on... by mikejb on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @02:53AM (#21989287)
> 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)

Re:Iran crash: Ukrainian passenger plane crashes with 170 on... by p_l on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @05:38AM (#21990189)
Unless 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.
Re:Iran crash: Ukrainian passenger plane crashes with 170 on... by shuckles on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @02:52AM (#21989280)
Remember Stuxnet?
Re:Iran crash: Ukrainian passenger plane crashes with 170 on... by dilyevsky on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @03:08AM (#21989379)
Pretty sure russian/chinese SAMs don’t run windows
Re:Iran crash: Ukrainian passenger plane crashes with 170 on... by iamaelephant on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @03:16AM (#21989416)
What makes you pretty sure of that?
Re:Iran crash: Ukrainian passenger plane crashes with 170 on... by dilyevsky on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @04:35AM (#21989865)
* Most of them were made before it was even a thing

* Precisely for reason above

Re:Iran crash: Ukrainian passenger plane crashes with 170 on... by est on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @03:11AM (#21989395)
> turn a 737 into a huge burning fireball

From a suggested twitter video. No affirmative source yet.