Author Topic: Peru Shoots Down US Plane (Read 937 times)

-lynx- · « **Reply #15 on:** April 22, 2001, 03:52:00 PM »

I hate this, really do - but isn't this a double standard of some sort?

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Sorry, but if people are stupid enough not to file a flight plan and fail to respond to a miltary challenge without good reason, then I'll invoke Darwin.

(Plus earlier Miko's about no ill will) A couple of weeks ago there was a discussion about Flight KAL007 - the Russians were branded mass murderers etc. This time the scale was somewhat smaller with just 5 people on board, unarmed floatplane Cessna was shot down in broad daylight.

"Donaldson said despite her husband's protests on the radio, the plane was shot at with a machine gun.

She said that even after the plane landed on the Amazon River, the military plane continued to fire."

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #16 on:** April 22, 2001, 04:48:00 PM »

Tell me you aren't comparing a commercial airliner to a low level private plane. I'm sorry.. but you are way off base with this one.

As for the communication.. there was some kind of problem. I read the quote out of the article.. I didn't read who the pilot was talking to or what he was saying. Like I said.. there was some kind of communication problem.

AKDejaVu

Eagler · « **Reply #17 on:** April 23, 2001, 05:44:00 AM »

perfect example of why the morons in South America can't handle their own freaking problem.

Incompetence!
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010422/ts/peru_crash_dc_21.html

Eagler

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Toad · « **Reply #18 on:** April 23, 2001, 11:30:00 AM »

Boroda,

I'll ask my dad exactly where they went. I know it wasn't a "big city" type place. It was pretty remote and the people didn't have much.

qts · « **Reply #19 on:** April 23, 2001, 03:49:00 PM »

Lynx, the BBC report I was citing stated that the *Peruvians reported that the plane DID NOT RESPOND*. That is all. It does not mean that the plane did not respond but that the Peruvians so reported.

Later testimony (a survivor) states that they did respond.

Who is telling the truth is yet to be decided.

Please learn to read more accurately.

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qts