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Originally Posted by Bagor
I don't believe this to be true? I believe there was nothing extraordinary about their flight plan.
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The flight was going to Dubai, so the airliner was never supposed to reach full altitude. It was to climb to 14,000 feet, cruise, and then begin descent. So it was the normal flight from Tehran to Dubai, but climbed much lower than most commercial flights would (31-38,000 feet). It did not help that the Iranian government was using the airport that 655 came out of as a military airport as well, and launched both commercial and military aircraft from the same site.