Video Shows Ukrainian Airliner Being Hit Over Iran

[Berlin Expat]

33. The most likely scenario

in my opinion, and I'm just speculating here, is that the Iranian air defense network sighted the airliner on their radar and mistook it for, who knows, maybe a B-52 or something and failed to properly identify the target before firing.

That being said, it's also quite likely that air traffic control at Khomeini International Airport might well have failed to notify the air defense network that a civilian airliner was taking off and because the air defense network personnel didn't know this, tragedy ensued. After all, this happened in the middle of a situation where air defense would've been on a hair-trigger and if they didn't know that a civilian plane was about to pop up on their radars, they might well have assumed that the target was an incoming US strike.

It seems like there's plenty of blame to go around, and as happened before, miscommunication - or failure to communicate in a timely manner - can lead to disaster.