Looking more and more likely.
Via Hot Air:
“Possibility” is one word, but it’s starting to look like “probability” is a better one. Ukrainian investigators in Iran suspect that the plane that exploded and crashed near Tehran during the missile attack on American bases in Iraq got shot down, the Washington Post reports this morning. Nothing else appears to fit the initial set of facts, and certainly not Iran’s initial explanation of the incident:
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Ukrainian investigators are considering the possibility that an antiaircraft missile might have hit a passenger jet that crashed near Tehran, killing all 176 aboard, as an initial report released Thursday by Iran said the plane was on fire while still in the air.
The preliminary Iranian investigation cited witnesses saying the plane was burning and was turning back to Tehran because of the “problem” when it went down Wednesday. …
The Ukraine International Airlines flight — bound for the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv — departed Tehran at 6:12 a.m. on Wednesday and was approaching 8,000 feet when it abruptly lost contact with ground control, officials said.