Not sure where you've got the impression from I'm saying it was an assassination or that the mission goal was to bring down the plane......................
I'm not discounting the most likely explanation but I've always had some suspicion that the Iranian angle holds more merit than generally accepted and without any real progress on the mostly likely one I think it raises the possibility of another alternative explanation possibly being the right one a little bit.
While largely likely to be coincidence and somewhat unverified there are a number of factors that could loosely indicate there is something to it:
-Obviously there are the 2 Iranians on false documentation - I doubt that is particularly unusual in itself you could probably pick any flight at random and find someone on it that isn't who they seem.
-Questionable (Iranian linked) background of the person who bought their tickets.
-Group onboard whose business links could potentially include sensitive links to Iran (likely coincidence but combined with the above while a long shot could be something to it).
-The nature of the way the plane went "dark" and subsequent manoeuvres are unusual for the more common outcomes of an accident or hijacking and potentially point to a professional involvement whether an employee or "other".
-Multiple unverified sightings of a possible passenger jet (outside of normal routes) around the general vicinity of the Maldives that loosely fits the timeframe including I believe a US or French naval vessel that briefly tracked an unidentified object that could have been a passenger jet.
-The satellite calculations have a certain amount of "dead reckoning" based on eliminating other possibilities and/or using the most likely context for non-deterministic data - some of the elimination factors have subsequently been found to be possible to explain in other ways.
-Reports of Iranian naval assets leaving a port in Oman unexpectedly and heading in that general direction again loosely fitting the timeline if the plane had been flying that way. (more than likely just coincidence but still).
-I believe the last known manoeuvre put it on a heading loosely west as well though nothing to say that couldn't have changed.
Some of these might have been discounted in the months since as I've not really followed up on it beyond a brief look into it at the time. As to the purpose and what the actual plan was assuming there even is anything to it at all I'd barely hazard a guess but its not the first time stuff of this nature has been done at a state sponsored level especially by the Russians as pointed out above and the Israelis.
I'm not discounting the most likely explanation but I've always had some suspicion that the Iranian angle holds more merit than generally accepted and without any real progress on the mostly likely one I think it raises the possibility of another alternative explanation possibly being the right one a little bit.
While largely likely to be coincidence and somewhat unverified there are a number of factors that could loosely indicate there is something to it:
-Obviously there are the 2 Iranians on false documentation - I doubt that is particularly unusual in itself you could probably pick any flight at random and find someone on it that isn't who they seem.
-Questionable (Iranian linked) background of the person who bought their tickets.
-Group onboard whose business links could potentially include sensitive links to Iran (likely coincidence but combined with the above while a long shot could be something to it).
-The nature of the way the plane went "dark" and subsequent manoeuvres are unusual for the more common outcomes of an accident or hijacking and potentially point to a professional involvement whether an employee or "other".
-Multiple unverified sightings of a possible passenger jet (outside of normal routes) around the general vicinity of the Maldives that loosely fits the timeframe including I believe a US or French naval vessel that briefly tracked an unidentified object that could have been a passenger jet.
-The satellite calculations have a certain amount of "dead reckoning" based on eliminating other possibilities and/or using the most likely context for non-deterministic data - some of the elimination factors have subsequently been found to be possible to explain in other ways.
-Reports of Iranian naval assets leaving a port in Oman unexpectedly and heading in that general direction again loosely fitting the timeline if the plane had been flying that way. (more than likely just coincidence but still).
-I believe the last known manoeuvre put it on a heading loosely west as well though nothing to say that couldn't have changed.
Some of these might have been discounted in the months since as I've not really followed up on it beyond a brief look into it at the time. As to the purpose and what the actual plan was assuming there even is anything to it at all I'd barely hazard a guess but its not the first time stuff of this nature has been done at a state sponsored level especially by the Russians as pointed out above and the Israelis.
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