When the U.S. Shot Down a Passenger Plane
Have you heard about the time that the United States, the supposed global beacon of “freedom,” “human rights,” and the “rules-based order”…
When the U.S. Shot Down a Passenger Plane
Have you heard about the time that the United States, the supposed global beacon of “freedom,” “human rights,” and the “rules-based order”, straight-up blew a civilian airliner out of the sky killing 290 people, sixty-six of them children. Then, shrugged and moved on, didn’t even bother to give the usual empty “thoughts and prayers.”
Just eight years of silence before finally cutting a check with a disclaimer that essentially said we did nothing wrong, but here’s some money anyways for your troubles.
The USS Vincennes, a Navy guided-missile cruiser, equipped with advanced technology, on July 3rd 1988 decided to destroy Iran Air Flight 655, a commercial Airbus A300, while it was on a normal passenger route from Bandar Abbas to Dubai.
The plane was in Iranian airspace, on a known civilian corridor, broadcasting a civilian transponder signal. There was zero ambiguity.
It seems odd to me that in this situation the self titled “most advanced navy in the world” couldn’t tell the difference between an airliner full of families with children and an attacking fighter jet. An understandable mistake right? Since the expert Navy men couldn’t tell the difference they decided to fire two surface-to-air missiles and vaporized everyone onboard.