06-28-2007, 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric5273
I bet you didn't know that the American Navy shot down an Iranian airliner in 1988, did you?
An American naval warship patrolling in the Persian Gulf has shot down an Iranian passenger jet after apparently mistaking it for an F-14 fighter.
All those on board the airliner - almost 300 people - are believed dead.
The plane, an Airbus A300, was making a routine flight from Bandar Abbas, in Iran, to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
The USS Vincennes had tracked the plane electronically and warned it to keep away. When it did not the ship fired two surface-to-air missiles, at least one of which hit the airliner.
Navy officials said the Vincennes' crew believed they were firing at an Iranian F14 jet fighter, although they had not confirmed this visually.
The plane blew up six miles from the Vincennes, the wreckage falling in Iranian territorial waters. [i.e. plane was over Iranian waters]
Iranian ships and helicopters have been searching for survivors but none have so far been found. Iranian television broadcast scenes of bodies floating amid scattered debris.
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Um, yeah, I did. You always assume I don't know anything. Quite insulting. I don't assume you don't know anything, just that what you know is misinformed.
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Originally Posted by Eric5273
You have to get over the whole 9/11 thing buddy.
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Originally Posted by Winston Churchill
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