Questions about the Ukrainian Boeing

From Pepe Escobar, via Facebook

VERY IMPORTANT UKRO-BOEING UPDATE

It’s quite depressing to see that a lot of readers of this global forum don't have a f*****g clue on what investigative journalism is all about.

I am NOT convinced about the simplistic, official - Iranian – story on the ”human error” re: the tragedy of the Ukro-Boeing. I am interested in WHAT INDUCED THAT HUMAN ERROR. That’s where the story does not hold. So I’ll keep digging.

The IRGC did ask for a “no fly zone”. It was denied. Why? The Rouhani government owes everyone an explanation.

The flight data of the Ukro-Boeing was abruptly cut off while it was climbing.

Flight data includes crucial TRANSPONDER signals.

So the plane was off course, with NO transponder, and trying to return to the airport – thus the U-turn maneuver by the pilot.

In this case, it is easy to understand why the flight was mis-identified.

What did the Ukrainians say about this? They said the plane had just been under maintenance.

So “something” might have been done in maintenance to allow or cause the flight data to be abruptly cut off. By whom – and under whose orders? Why the Ukrainians are not being investigated?

Then there’s the cell phone video.

Why the hell would someone be filming the sky in the middle of the night with his smart phone?

Are we expected to believe that one of the soldiers at the Iranian launch site really was playing with a smart phone instead of manning his station?

And how did the US and other usual suspects know, within MINUTES, that a missile had hit the Ukro-Boeing?

These are just a few extra questions.

And I’m not even wading into the “Israel did it” swamp.

Veterans Today has an explosive report stating, outright, that the whole thing was due to an automation or software error, not human.

Facebook won't allow me to show the link. Orwellian tactics. Find it for yourselves, it's easy.

Veterans Today goes for the jugular:

“This was an Israeli cyber terrorist attack that triggered Russian-made Iranian anti-aircraft missile system to misfire against a friendly civilian target by a Unit 8200 backdoor into the “Friend or Foe” ID code conduited to Israel via Russian technology relations.”

This ongoing investigation is FAR from over.

Here is the article

Exclusive: PS752 Shot Down 

In Regime Change Attempt

A missile fired by an Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) base brought down Ukrainian flight PS752. We also know that it was no accident.

By Ian Greenhalgh 

Veterans Today,

12 January, 2020

by Ian Greenhalgh

We now know that it was a missile fired by an Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) missile complex that brought down Ukrainian flight PS752. We also know that it was no accident, but rather, a deliberate act.

Whether the missile was fired due to the actions of a human traitor within the IRGC or due to remote hacking into the missile’s control systems is unknown; however, the outcome is the same – nearly 200 dead civilians whose deaths can be blamed on the IRGC.

U.S. Secret Program to Sabotage Iranian Missiles

“The New York Times reported that the Trump White House has accelerated a secret American program to sabotage Iran’s missiles and rockets, according to current and former administration officials.”

The idea behind the shootdown appears to be to undermine the current Iranian leadership by discrediting its main supporter – the IRGC. The current explanations offered by the IRGC for the ‘accidental’ missile launch leave much to be desired.

Communication jammed, Iran missile operator fired

“Guards’ explanation comes as the world demands full account following Iran’s admission it downed the jet

The Iranian missile operator who shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet opened fire independently because of communications “jamming”, a Revolutionary Guards commander said on Saturday.

The operator had mistaken the Boeing 737 for a “cruise missile” and only had ten seconds to decide whether or not to open fire, Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh, the Guards’ aerospace commander, said in televised remarks.”

There have been some public protests against the Iranian regime recently, largely due to a populous that has suffered greatly due to the US-lead economic sanctions imposed on Iran for several years now.

However, there is a definite Western influence attempting to stir up and amplify the anti-government protests, as revealed by this FARS report on a British Ambassador caught trying to incite an anti-government protest:

Iran Summons British Ambassador over Provoking Illegal Protests

“The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned British Ambassador Robert Macaire after police identified and detained the envoy briefly as he was trying to turn a mourning vigil in front of the Amir Kabir University of Tehran into an anti-government protest.”

The failure of sanctions to achieve regime change in Iran has had a side-effect that is most unpleasant to the US – Iran has been driven into the arms of China as its a savior. Two-thirds of Iranian exports now go to China, principally oil and gas, most of the rest of Iran’s exports go to Russia.

China, as well as becoming Iran’s main trade partner, has become her protector – any move by Trump to declare war on Iran would have to take careful account of China’s reaction.

A handout photo made available by the Iranian Army office on December 28, 2019, shows a view of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy Surface Force Type 052D destroyer Xining (117), the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy frigate “ALBORZ” (72), and the Russian Navy Neustrashimyy-class frigate “Yaroslav Mudry” during joint Iran-Russia-China naval drills in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Oman. – Iran, China, and Russia started four days of joint naval drills in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Oman, the commander of Iran’s flotilla announced. The exercise comes at a time of heightened tensions since the United States withdrew from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran in May 2018.

Joint naval drill with Russia, China shows Iran is not isolated

“The joint maneuvers with China and Russia can be considered as one of the greatest achievements of Iran’s defense diplomacy, sending messages to the West amid US efforts to woo countries into a maritime coalition for patrols in the Persian Gulf.”

Iran is a key partner in China’s One Belt, One Road framework as China aims to recreate the Silk Road as a trans-Asian trading network; already, China is building high-speed rail lines in Iran that will become the Western end of the rail portion of the New Silk Road.

Iran’s neighbor Iraq has also been building ever-closer ties to China, especially in trade and finance, to the extent that both Iran and Iraq are rapidly becoming Chinese client states. Iraq has started exporting 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil to China as part of the 20-year oil-for-infrastructure deal.

China is to build factories in both Iran and Iraq as part of a vast program of investments by Chinese companies.

The notion of two Chinese client states dominating the Middle East must induce more than a few headaches in Washington, Tel-Aviv, and Riyadh; therefore the push for regime change in those two states is increasing and the murders of Gen. Soleimani and a planeload of civilians are both parts of that push.

China will no doubt react to this regime change agenda, how they do so remains to be seen.

China might take Iran’s side in a war with the US

“Beijing’s ties with Tehran are crucial to its energy and geopolitical strategies, and with Moscow also in the mix, a broader conflagration is a real possibility.

Currently, China’s reaction is to urge both Iran and the US to maintain calm and de-escalate tensions and closely monitor the situation. Beijing does not want war and needs Mideast stability to pursue the Belt and Road Initiative Eurasian integration plan. It has large stakes in Iran’s stability: It is the largest buyer of Iranian oil, China is Iran’s largest trading partner, and Iran is a key geographic node for the BRI.”
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The following is from the comments section.

"The flight data of the Ukro-Boeing was abruptly cut off while it was climbing. Flight data includes crucial TRANSPONDER signals. So the plane was off course, with NO transponder, and trying to return to the airport – thus the U-turn maneuver by the pilot."

This is what the Iranian civil air authority initially reported, that flight data suddenly ended, and that the pilot appeared to be attempting to return to the airport. Both of these initial reports appear to now be accounted for and superseded by the Iranian Air Force's admission of a shoot-down. I.e., the Boeing no longer transmitted data and began circling back to the airport simply because it had been hit.

HOWEVER, the question still stands: even if flight data and flight path were normal until impact, why did an air-defense system operator mistake a Boeing 737 for a cruise missile?

Unless it or the air-defense system was fiddled with in some way, the Ukrainian Airlines jet's transponder would have been telling the operator that the object he was seeing on his radar screen is a Boeing 737.

Additionally, the plane's appearance should have in no way surprised him - it was the TENTH flight out of Tehran's Khomeini Airport that night. Prior to Flight 752, the last flight movement there was the departure - from the same runway, and in the same direction - of QR8408, at 05:39 local time, 35 minutes previously. [See flightradar24. com article below]

Why then was the air-defense operator alarmed by this flight?