Russian missile strike eyed as one of many possible causes that led to plane crash in Iran:...

Iran will not release the black boxes from the crashed Ukrainian plane.

Possible scenario- Iran launches missiles at two American airbases in Iraq. Iranian anti-aircraft batteries are put on high alert for a possible American counter strike. The Iranian anti-aircraft crews are nervous, knowing they might well be the first targets of a counter strike. Within an hour or two, an unknown (to the crew members) blip appears on the radar, a jittery crew launches a missile. Ukrainian airliner down.

It happened to us in 1988 in the Persian Gulf. Same scenario, except it was an Iranian airliner.