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L14MNP
19-06-09, 11:16 PM
that the USA are the masters at killing allies in friendly fire, which is bad enough but I was gobsmacked when I watched 'Air crash disasters' (iirc) earlier today and one of their navy destroyers shot down an Airbus with 280 people on board! :roll:lol

Anyone ever hear of that and/or saw the programme?

I'm going to look it up online in a bit if I CBA.
L14MNP
19-06-09, 11:19 PM
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/archive/index.php?t-3684.html

Guess it's not an isolated incident. Great(!) lol
AlexW
19-06-09, 11:19 PM
I saw that.
L14MNP
19-06-09, 11:22 PM
The heroes welcome for the crew of the destroyer annoyed me, as well as the Captain and another of his crew being given accomodations for their actions.

If they didn't have their heads up their ar$e they would have known it posed no threat, maybe if they hadn't strayed into Iranian waters directly below the planes flight path it would have been different.

Someone should have been jailed for that IMO.
Dar
19-06-09, 11:22 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655


According to the US government, the crew mistakenly identified the Iranian Airbus A300 as an attacking F-14 Tomcat fighter.
http://widebodyaircraft.nl/a300tun.jpg
http://www.lnl.com/images/grumman/F-14_Tomcat.jpg
Who did they have as spotter, Stevie Wonder?
AlexW
19-06-09, 11:23 PM
LOL Come on dar, this is the US... they had bush sitting behind the controls....
L14MNP
19-06-09, 11:23 PM
^ lol.

IIRC the 'squak' signal given off from the F-14 was the one they were tracking :S
AlexW
19-06-09, 11:25 PM
America - There to make the rest of the world look more intelligent.
L14MNP
19-06-09, 11:27 PM
Plenty of friendly fire jokes to be had over Xbox live with them :D
AlexW
19-06-09, 11:29 PM
lol Makes me want a xbox just to take the piss. The ones that play so called racing games are even funnier....
L14MNP
19-06-09, 11:30 PM
lol Yeah. Bit out of touch with XBMC now but playing them on Forza was good. 'Hey man I can't do stick' flol

*edit. That out of touch I referred to Media Centre on the mk1 lol
AlexW
19-06-09, 11:31 PM
lol. And they think we have funny accents... err right
Jack
19-06-09, 11:33 PM
Old news, the americans are always shooting the wrong things.
L14MNP
19-06-09, 11:34 PM
RJ in shock captiliazation fail!

I thought they liked to shoot other army men. :(
Jack
19-06-09, 11:41 PM
Nah, it was my way of showing disregard for them
L14MNP
19-06-09, 11:43 PM
I believe that. Your lack of punctuation conveys your point. :)