Aviation analyst on details so far in Flight PS752 crash

Aviation analyst Phyl Durdey takes us through the Flight PS752 and shares what investigators in Iran will be examining.

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65 comments

  1. Les plus sincères condoléances à toutes les familles touchées. Repose en paix mes frères et sœurs. Les problèmes techniques et les missiles n’ont pas été lancés depuis Téhéran ou près de Téhéran.

    1. There is video of it on Twitter, plane is intact coming down, both engines are on fire, and then the explosion happened on impact. Literally lit up the whole sky.

  2. if planes like that just rip apart in the air after 6 mins of flight we would not be flying at all. seems very unreal for it to just snap apart don’t the do regular checks before flight to ensure the plane is indeed safe for take off.

    1. @jon b Have a link to the video? As morbid as it is I am very curious about this. 63 of my countrymen died and I want answers.

    2. A Supremely Unremarkable Brick if you want answers, then allow those who are trained, experienced, and have access to the actual evidence time to look at and study it. The facts will come out, but not in the next twenty minutes and not from youtub commenters.

    3. restingbitchface  There are dozens of cases of plane crashes.  The two most recent were because of bad software th still has not been fixed.  Don’t fly?

    4. @Stu Pidas – I’m betting there will be absolutely no evidence to find and will become one of those unsolved mysteries.

  3. They lost contact minutes before the crash, it went down in flames, debris widely scattered, holes in sections, Iranian air defense was on high alert …I’m no expert but my tiny brain is saying “not a mechanical failure”. I’d love to be proven wrong.

    1. @James Cartier Seriously how would you know any detail already? So little information out yet. It looks suspicious but jeez, have we not learned anything from decades of crash investigation?
      And yes, there have been many, many accidents which left an airplane disintegrated in thousands of suspicious little flaming bits, only to have the flight recorders reveal a completely unexpected cause.

    1. Why would Iran launch a missile attack on the airplane?  If Trump was on it or some other high profile American YES but that was not the case. The passengers were simply folks with business or relatives in Iran.

    2. Up until now there’s no confirmation about missile attack. Intelligence from Canadian sources suggeted that it was a technical malfunction. But, heey, remember that it’s still too early to speculate on things.. so just be aware of more updates on the crash

    1. South Canada it’s debatable, there’s video footage of it crashing on Twitter, both engines are on fire as it descends, but the explosion is on impact.

    1. Exactly! because that’s how a brain of a child works, by making assumptions without evidence “look mommy! I can make everyone disappear by closing my eyes!”

  4. oh, no. if it lost contact at 7925 feet, it means something happened up there in air , if it is malfunction, the pilot shall be able to contact air traffic controller center, so it means that it must have being hit by missile

  5. You don’t need to be a so called expert to know without a doubt that if the debris field is 1 sq km , then that points to a catastrophic explosion of the jet in the air.

    1. An eye witness reported a big explosion from above and went outside to see the plane disintegrate in the sky according to some news outlets.

  6. Isn’t it Ironic how this happened when Iran just fired more than a dozen missiles not long apart?

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