An explosion reverberated between the town of Saghbine and Mount Barouk on Sunday, with Lebanon’s state National News Agency reporting that the blast was caused by the crash of an unknown aircraft. A security source told AFP that “an Israeli airstrike was launched this morning to destroy one of their drones that crashed in the mountains outside Saghbine.” However, other media accounts cast doubt over whether Israel had struck the remote area of the Bekaa valley while Cyrillic inscriptions found in the wreckage raised further questions. In its initial report on the incident, Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television denied that Israel had conducted a raid on the crash site.
Then, on Tuesday morning, a Lebanese pro-Hezbollah newspaper reported that the aircraft had been downed by an Israeli jet conducting mock raids over Lebanon’s Hasbaya. However, the report claimed that the drone had been Syrian. “The plane was probably a Syrian aircraft that had been observed over Mount Hermon in the de-militarized zone above Mount Hermon and Quneitra's villages which are currently seeing clashes between armed groups and the regime,” Al-Akhbar said.
In turn, Lebanese daily Al-Joumhouria reported Monday that the Lebanese Armed Forces “did not observe any Israeli warplanes breaching Lebanese air space and carrying out a raid in the Saghbine area after the crash of the supposed reconnaissance plane.” The article added that the Lebanese army investigation of the wreckage “has not ascertained whether it was an Israeli plane, because the LAF is continuing its investigations, which are being carried out by specialist aviation officers.” The newspaper noted that the investigators had found “wreckage and very small metal fragments, with one of them bearing two Cyrillic letters.” Al-Hayat spoke with a high-level security source on the investigation and the mystery over the Cyrillic letters.
“Investigations are focusing on three possibilities, in order to reach practical results that cannot be doubted,” he explained. “The fragment on which Russian inscriptions were found could either be part of the plane or the remains of a Russian-made missile that was fired at it.” “The committee has been able to precisely define [the plane’s] crash site,” the source added, saying that the investigators had to reach the site via an army helicopter due to its remoteness. “The committee will reach a conclusion on the identity of the plane, [which] remains unknown. Then it will ascertain whether [the plane] was [used for] military or reconnaissance [purposes].” An Israeli aviation expert voiced his doubt in an interview with The Telegraph that the downed plane was an Israeli drone. “I think the whole issue is not about Israel at all,” Tal Inbar told the British daily. Inbar, who is the head of Space and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles at Israel’s Fisher Brothers Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies, also suggested that pictures of the wreckage circulated by Lebanese media outlets do not resemble an Israeli drone.
Then, on Tuesday morning, a Lebanese pro-Hezbollah newspaper reported that the aircraft had been downed by an Israeli jet conducting mock raids over Lebanon’s Hasbaya. However, the report claimed that the drone had been Syrian. “The plane was probably a Syrian aircraft that had been observed over Mount Hermon in the de-militarized zone above Mount Hermon and Quneitra's villages which are currently seeing clashes between armed groups and the regime,” Al-Akhbar said.
In turn, Lebanese daily Al-Joumhouria reported Monday that the Lebanese Armed Forces “did not observe any Israeli warplanes breaching Lebanese air space and carrying out a raid in the Saghbine area after the crash of the supposed reconnaissance plane.” The article added that the Lebanese army investigation of the wreckage “has not ascertained whether it was an Israeli plane, because the LAF is continuing its investigations, which are being carried out by specialist aviation officers.” The newspaper noted that the investigators had found “wreckage and very small metal fragments, with one of them bearing two Cyrillic letters.” Al-Hayat spoke with a high-level security source on the investigation and the mystery over the Cyrillic letters.
“Investigations are focusing on three possibilities, in order to reach practical results that cannot be doubted,” he explained. “The fragment on which Russian inscriptions were found could either be part of the plane or the remains of a Russian-made missile that was fired at it.” “The committee has been able to precisely define [the plane’s] crash site,” the source added, saying that the investigators had to reach the site via an army helicopter due to its remoteness. “The committee will reach a conclusion on the identity of the plane, [which] remains unknown. Then it will ascertain whether [the plane] was [used for] military or reconnaissance [purposes].” An Israeli aviation expert voiced his doubt in an interview with The Telegraph that the downed plane was an Israeli drone. “I think the whole issue is not about Israel at all,” Tal Inbar told the British daily. Inbar, who is the head of Space and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles at Israel’s Fisher Brothers Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies, also suggested that pictures of the wreckage circulated by Lebanese media outlets do not resemble an Israeli drone.
Written by Aceh Tweets
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