Experts detail factors that may have led Iranian missile crews to down Ukrainian 737

UIA 737 crash in Iran

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Though the cause of the Ukraine International Airlines crash remains unconfirmed, defence experts suspect high stress and poor civilian-military coordination led ill-trained missile units to mistakenly shoot down the Boeing 737-800.

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