US officials say they believe the Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737-800 was hit by a missile, CBS says.

Ukraine earlier said it was examining whether a missile strike brought down the aircraft - but Iran ruled this out.

The crash came just hours after Iran carried out missile strikes on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq.

CBS News quoted US intelligence sources as saying a satellite detected infrared "blips" of two missile launches, followed by another blip of an explosion.

Meanwhile, Newsweek quoted a Pentagon and senior US intelligence officials, as well as an Iraqi intelligence official, as saying they believed the Ukrainian plane was hit by a Russian-made Tor missile.

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that "I have my suspicions" over the plane. "Somebody could have made a mistake," he said.

Amid tensions heightened by the US killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani on 3 January, Iran has said it will not hand over the recovered black box flight recorders to Boeing, the plane's manufacturer, or to the US.

Under global aviation rules Iran has the right to lead the investigation, but manufacturers are typically involved.

What does US media report?

In separate reports, CBS News and Newsweek said US and Iraqi intelligence officials were confident the Ukrainian plane was brought down by a missile fired by Iran.

CBS published a brief report on Twitter, saying the officials were confident the plane was shot down.


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It said this information was based on US intelligence, which sources said picked up signals of a radar being turned on. US satellites also reportedly detected two missile launches shortly before the Ukrainian plane exploded.

Meanwhile, Newsweek quoted US and Iraqi officials as saying they believed the aircraft was hit by a Russia-built Tor M-1 surface-to-air missile system, known as Gauntlet by Nato.

Two Pentagon officials assessed that the incident was accidental, Newsweek added.

It quoted sources as saying that Iran's anti-aircraft systems were probably active following its attacks on the US airbases.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-middle-east-51055219

that is bad o!

Mad Mullahs.....that's why they're hiding the black boxes.

They are guilty.......all because one of your senior terrorist was killed?

How many americans were on that plane?

Fools....

I knew it was Iran. Was thinking they did it intentionally to get back at the US, but that airline is not American.


MODIFIED
Canada is now taking it personally, because more than 60 of their citizens were killed in the crash. Let's see how US pushes them to knock Iran...

Trump and Iran caused this nonsense..... they all have blood on their hands....

I suspected, the timing was just too close to be a coincidence... They were even reports they the Iranian TV was announcing they they just shot down a US military jet hovering around Tehran airspace.. Na wah oh

Fake news

Accidental. Smh

Oya o. Those of you cheerleading the deaths of innocent people.

Come and partake of taking responsibility for this blood shed. Continue to cheerleader Iran on in its rascal and rogue display.


First it was aid workers. Now innocent lives. Majority below 40. Imagine the brains and the destinies wasted. Continue cheerleading Iran on its recklessness. May their bloodshed be credited to your karma bank accounts angry



Continue cheerleading Iran and its culture of killing innocent people and accusing the United States of wrong doing or any reasonable person as haters. Even the entire gulf region backs the American presence in the region buttressed by the move of its operational bases to Kuwait. Sauid Arabia has come out rightly to condemn Iran's antics. Yet some religious haters still twist reality that this is a religious war. May the blood of all the dead souls be on the account of everyone cheerleading Iran on in its madness.

I could be a possibility otherwise, why is Iranian authorities quick to say they will not give the plane's black box to Boeing? Why not allow the Ukrainian government to make the statement since the ill-fated airliner belongs to it?

healthserve:
.......Even the entire gulf region backs the American presence in the region buttressed by the move of its operational bases to Kuwait. Sauid Arabia has come out rightly to condemn Iran's antics.
Yet some religious haters still twist reality that this is a religious war.May the blood of all the dead souls be on the account of everyone cheerleading Iran on in its madness.

On point sir.

When you are going for revenge, dig two grave, and when you are digging a hole �️ for your enemy don't dig too deep, because you never can tell you may end up falling into it!

Pray for peace make Ukraine no take the matter to next level for it was a mistake just like July 1988 flight 655 when USA accidentally shot a missiles at passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai.

Ahmeduana:
When you are going for revenge, dig two grave, and when you are digging a hole �️ for your enemy don't dig too deep, because you never can tell you may end up falling into it!

Better oil dey your head

Judging from Iran's refusal to hand the over the black box and the level of damage that was done to the plane I knew that plane couldn't have crashed on its own. There have to be a heavy external explosion that made its parts shatter to the level pictured. Remember the passengers were Americans travelling to Canada and Iran vowed to hit USA hard... they just bit more than they can chew

Conspiracy theory can be factual most time. No wonder the Iranian government refused to release the black box for further investigation by the Ukraine airline

Soulemani was assassinated by US

About 40 people died and another 213 hospitalized in a stampede at his burial

A 4.9 earthquake struck the land threatened their their military wares

About 176 people on board if a commercial flight was gruesomely killed as a result of needless revenge.....

Everything happened in just 72hrs...

I think this is a serious warning from your ancestors not to engage in any form of hostility in the recent time.

OAUTemitayo:
Fake news

this is not fake news. I saw in aljezerra this night.

Suspected! Poor souls caught as casualties, that's why we should all be careful of war, we never know whom it might consume

Fear US oooo

Na like play like play US will trigger a real fight between Iran and Russians

Guess what would have happened if Shehu sanni comes from rejected erosion region? They would have locked down Zoo

I knew it. Those that didn't buy from this shit will surely pay for it.
Where two elephants fights....
Rest in peace to d innocent souls.
Oga o

Siga:
Trump and Iran caused this nonsense..... they all have blood on their hands....

Must you drag Trump to this?

Haaaaaaa!
Iran right now

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Zenithpeak:
Soulemani was assassinated by US

About 40 people died and another 213 hospitalized in a stampede at his burial

A 4.9 earthquake struck the land threatened their their military wares

About 176 people on board if a commercial flight was gruesomely killed as a result of needless revenge.....

Everything happened in just 72hrs...

I think this is a serious warning from your ancestors not to engage in any form of hostility in the recent time.

Auto Crash this evening...19 dead, 24 Injured in Iran

IRAN no sabi anything abeg.....

Dey shud go n learn more

Even though there were 63 Canadians on that plane, this is how much we Canadians believe our brothers south of the border

Ghen ghen they wanted to fight God's own Nation

US wan take style cause another wahala between Iran and Ukraine

Okay let’s wait and see

How can we rope Nigeria into all this