We acknowledged it, we apologized for it, we paid compensation to the families of killed passengers.
After deliberately and willfully shooting down KAL007, the Soviets lied, denied, and obfuscated.
Let’s see what the Russkis do now ...
Did we?
Wikipedia says no. (I know, I know. Trusting Wikipedia is risky.)
However, the United States has never admitted responsibility, nor apologized to Iran.[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
Actually, we didn’t apologize.
There’s no evidence of the Iran Air’s crew doing anything but following normal civilian procedure. Vincennes had been pushing the envelope for some time, as the record showed.
Captain and crew all received normal end-of-tour medals and commendations, but the captain never received another sea command, and retired about 30 months afterwards.
Is that how it was? are you sure?