Iran Remembers Victims Of Airliner Shot Down By US

Associated Press ^ | July 3, 2010

[Strategy]

BANDAR ABBAS, Iran -- Iranian helicopters scattered flowers into the Persian Gulf waters as family members and relatives remembered the 290 passengers killed when a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian airliner 22 years ago.

[neodad]

Aegis all the way!

[RightOnline]

This wasn’t/isn’t something to celebrate. It was a tragedy.

[Shannon]

Maybe O will offer them reparations.

[rlmorel]

It was a tragedy. I fault the Iranians who piloted that plane for acting in a belligerent manner, refusing to answer radio communications and flying that path during a time of hostility.

It was a shame and a tragedy...innocent people killed in a time of battle, but it could have been prevented.

It did highlight the need for better management of information and data as well.

[AAABEST]

This wasn’t/isn’t something to celebrate. It was a tragedy.

Yeah really.

We made a horrifying mistake and downed an airliner full of civilians... "Aegis all the way!"

[newfreep]

I wonder if this is connected to the missile downing of TWA 800 off NYC?

[newfreep]

OT - is FR really S-L-O-W-W-W today?

[rlmorel]

I still maintain the captain made the right decision in the heat of what was going on. If he hadn’t done that, and an Exocet missile had been launched, he would have been derelict in his duty.

We had problems with managing the flow of information, and the Iranians exacerbated it by deliberately making it worse.

We learned from it, ,but they didn’t.

[tet68]

As we have learned from experience, a few shahads could
have turned that airliner into a cruise missile.
Sad, perhaps, but no AMERICANS were harmed in this
incident.

[vetvetdoug]

Why were the bodies of the individuals on that Iranian airplane naked when they were recovered? I had heard rumour that there was a good chance many were already dead when they encroached upon the airspace of the Vincennes.

[mkjessup]

This wasn’t/isn’t something to celebrate. It was a tragedy.

It wasn't a deliberate shoot down, but considering that Iran is one of the premiere terrorist-sponsoring regimes on the planet, I view it as them reaping what they sow.

Call it bad karma, call it whatever you like.

Sh*t happens.

[AAABEST]

I still maintain the captain made the right decision in the heat of what was going on.

Unless you maintain that the event is worth of idiotic celebratory, type rhetoric, that's not what I and the FReeper I responded to were addressing, so it's a non-sequitor.

[avg_freeper]

Why were the bodies of the individuals on that Iranian airplane naked when they were recovered?

I think clothing being stripped off bodies by explosions and impact is quite common in crashes.

Bodies happen to be very strong structures and flesh has very high tensile strength, clothing not so much.

[mkjessup]

Yeah, by all means, let’s weep for those Persian pricks.

[Charlespg]

I have aways if somebody in the Iranian government did not not plan this from the start

Fly Air Marter

[Abathar]

Putting my tinfoil hat on it seems that it always slows down during a freepathon now that you mention it. :)

[Charlespg]

I have aways wondered if somebody in the Iranian government did not not plan this from the start

Fly Air Marter

[Vaquero]

Maybe O will offer them reparations.

we paid them cash already....and apologized profusely.

no more

[AAABEST]

Yeah, by all means, let’s weep for those Persian pricks.

Hint: Your homework is to learn to follow a discussion in a linear fashion as to avoid misrepresenting others and looking like an imbecile.