Aviation accident investigators don’t jump to conclusions. They may speculate wildly behind closed doors as they solve their airborne mysteries, but they do not typically shoot from the hip. Which is why after a Ukrainian International Airlines flight carrying 63 Canadians crashed in Iran, one response quoted all around the world was so remarkable.
Just hours after UIA Flight 752 went down, OPS Group—a network of pilots, dispatchers and air traffic controllers that promotes information sharing in plain language—offered a preliminary assessment. “We would recommend the starting assumption to be that this was a shootdown event,” read a blog post signed …read more
Source:: Macleans
