TEHRAN: The Iranian missile operator who shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet was acting alone when he opened fire because of a communications breakdown, a Revolutionary Guards commander said on Saturday.
The operator had mistaken the Boeing 737 for a “cruise missile” and only had 10 seconds to decide whether to fire, said Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh, the Guards’ aerospace commander.
“At various stages, it was reported… that cruise missiles had been fired towards the country,” Hajizadeh said in remarks broadcast on state television.
The Ukraine International Airlines plane was brought down in Tehran hours after Iran launched a volley of missiles at …read more
Source:: Free Malaysia Today
