http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/...ain/index.html

This story is claiming that a MANPAD hit a courier aircraft today.

If the story is correct it was an SA-7, I would think a 7b. Imagine how
much better something designed in the last quarter century might do?

A few months ago there was a thread in here about heat seekers and high
bypass ratio engines. Those certainly look like high bypass ratio engines
to me.

Several times threads have erupted here about the ability of a MANPAD to
take down an airliner on take-off. One data point is poor statistics so I
am not commenting one way or the other, but here is one that got wacked on
climb-out, and managed to go around and land.

T!