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Re: FLT 800: From the Rumor Mill...But It Makes Sense.. (fwd)
- To: Alan Horowitz <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: FLT 800: From the Rumor Mill...But It Makes Sense.. (fwd)
- From: "Angelos D. Keromytis" <[email protected]>
- Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 12:05:05 EDT
- cc: [email protected]
- In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 31 Aug 1996 23:21:11 EDT." <Pine.UW2.3.93.960831232038.22836C-100000@wilma>
- Posted-Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 12:05:05 -0400 (EDT)
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In message <Pine.UW2.3.93.960831232038.22836C-100000@wilma>, Alan Horowitz writ
es:
>
>The problem is, from my experience at Roosevelt Roads, the Navy never
>conducts live fire exercises without declaring the area of operation
>strictly off limits to non-military aircraft. Also, the 747 would have
>shown up WITH ITS TRANSPONDER DATA on the screens on an Aegis ship, so why
>would they fire? And, I didn't think that a P3 pilot would fly around in
This has happened before; an Aegis ship in the Persian Gulf shot down
an Iranian Airlines (or whatever it's called) aircraft; i'm not sure
how many died in that incident (i think about 70 - can very well be
wrong). The US just "apologized" for the mistake AFAIK.
- -Angelos
PS. This happened 8-10 years ago if i recall well.
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