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Strong technical reasons why the Ukrainian jetliner COULD NOT have been shot down in the manner presented by Iran.

asiatimes.com/2020/01/opinio…
"This attack on PS-752 was no accident. It was a criminal act that must have been authorized by the Revolutionary Guard force that runs Tehran’s missile defenses."
There may be one scenario that still allows from an accidental as opposed to a deliberate shootdown: the system has a backup TV optical tracker.

ausairpower.net/APA-9K331-Tor.…
The EO system might be employed where the missile battery did not want to radiate or expose itself to US ELINT. But if so the SAM battery was operating with very little information other than a glorified Mk 1 eyeball.
But presumably the battery, being close to the airport, must have seen other airplanes take off in their EO system. This makes an accidental shot very unlikely, though not impossible, if one supposes monumental incompetence.
Additionally the 737 would have been radiating a thermal signature from its two engines, especially when it turned onto the site. What cruise missile has two engines?
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