24-12-2015, 07:05 PM
From the title, I couldn't tell what the mistake was, the shooting or the telling. Turns out the shooting was deliberate, but the mis-identification of the passenger plane as an American spy plane was the "mistake". There was a spy plane in the area that had flown so close to the passenger plane that the radar returns merged.
Wasn't it also a "mistake", to play a high stakes game of chicken with civilian lives, in order to (presumably) test the Russians' radar capabilities?
Wasn't it also a "mistake", to play a high stakes game of chicken with civilian lives, in order to (presumably) test the Russians' radar capabilities?
"All that is necessary for tyranny to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (unknown)
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."