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That is the best cover story for incompetence from system design, to operator, to general staff.... that I have ever read.

7/11 ?

Here's a very detailed accounting of what happened, straight from the guy that would know. Surprised at his candor, not something we normally see after a tragic incident such as this one. Commander of the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Amir-Ali Hajizadeh has, in a press conference, outlined the details of an “unintentional” downing of the Ukrainian passenger plane, which crashed in Tehran Wednesday. At several stages, the Alert Level 3, which is the highest level, is communicated and emphasized to the entire network. So all air defence systems were at h

Suspected Tor (Russian made) radar guided from a ground launch unit. I don't think it gets that clever after launch Butch, the squawk you talk of will be radio transponder and I doubt the Tor is looking for it. Sounds pretty effective and I think the only 'safety' would be an ability to abort between firing and proximity to target. That would be a pretty short time frame.

I suspect that when this eruption is over, there won't be another one for a long time. It's a beautiful area of Luzon.

An elderly woman walked into the Bank of Ireland one morning with a purse full of money. She wanted to open a savings account and insisted on talking to the president of the Bank because, she said, she had a lot of money. After many lengthy discussions (after all, the client is always right) an employee took the elderly woman to the president’s office. The president of the Bank asked her how much she wanted to deposit. She placed her purse on his desk and replied, ‘$165,000’. The president was curious and asked her how she had been able to save so much money. The elderly woman replie

I’m following these events very closely at the moment. I saw the flight crew and attendants in KBP airport Tuesday night before they took off. Their flight took off 10 mins after I left Kyiv for Chernivtsi. its now been confirmed that the Iranians shot down the plane. So much for the word “impossible” I’m now sat back in KBP Kyiv airport waiting for my flight out. I’ve just passed the makeshift shrine to the lost crew of PS 572. It’s the saddest thing you will ever see in any airport around the world.

Interesting discussion on the professional pilots forum about the crash. Some of the pictures of the wreckage strongly hint at shrapnel hits from a missle strike. https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/628650-ukrainian-aircraft-down-iran.html

Fair enough. The rooms were small. When I returned to Pattaya from my trip out east I stayed at Opey de Place on Soi Lengkee. It's a lot smaller and right in the centre of the action. Only a small pool but it was normally empty, always empty recliners and it had trees where you could relax in the shade. No balcony with a view, but you could sit at the front of the hotel, have a coffee while watching the world go by.