You know,18 years ago ,4 of July a Iranian civil flight was crashed in to sea by USA's war-vessel(war-ship)so

Question

about 200 pepole of passenger killed and the USA gaverment told it was be a mistake.What is your idea?Realy was it a mistake?

Answer 1

The first question that should be answered is What the heck were the Americans doing there, sticking there nose in every place to bring PEACE?! ,why don't they mind there own business and these MISTAKES(?) won't happen any more.
the captain was given a medal for the nice MISTAKES he had made!

Answer 2

We in the U.S. only know what we get from the media. They told us it was a mistake - that the airliner was seen to be a threat to the U.S. Navy, so a missile was fired.

It's possible that this was a mistake, in the same way that the shooting down of the off-course Korean airliner by Russians, years earlier, was said to be a mistake.

I suppose there could be other reasons. Perhaps there was someone on the flight that the US wanted to assassinate. A list of passengers would be helpful to determine if that was the case. (One theory behind the crash of the EgyptAir flight from New York several yars ago, which was attributed to a depressed alternate pilot, was that there were many senior Egyptian military personnel on board).

Perhaps the U.S. wanted to provoke a war with Iran. If so, there would be other ways to do it (as may be happening now). I can't think of other reasons, though there may be many.

Sometimes it's difficult to comprehend that mistakes or simple errors in judgments can cause events which are so tragic. It doesn't excuse them, but does explain why they happened. What makes it more challenging is that, when a citizen makes a mistake that causes a death (involuntary manslaughter), there is most often a penalty. In cases like this, it doesn't happen.

Answer 3

It happened july 3 1988.
According to U.S. government accounts, the Vincennes mistakenly identified the Iranian airplane as an attacking military fighter. The officers identified the flight profile being flown by the A300B2 as being similar to that of an Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force F-14A Tomcat during an attack run.According to the same reports the Vincennes tried more than once to contact Flight 655, but there was no acknowledgement.

At 10:24 am, with the civilian jet 11 nautical miles away, the Vincennes fired two SM-2ER Surface-to-air missiles. The first missile broke the aircraft in two and damaged the tailplane and right wing. After the engagement, the Vincennes' crew realised that the plane had been a civilian airliner.

Answer 4

Yeah, so, do you remember what happened or do you just remember that it happened (is this selective memory syndrome again?) The Iranian plane had it's transponder off which would have identified it as a commercial flight the only planes that don't have them are military so the ship thought it was a military flight, the question you should be asking ( but of course you won't ) is why was the transponder turned off, coud it be they wanted us to shoot
it down so they could scream and yell about the barbarians we are
and consequently justify their terrorist actions in the process.

Answer 5

The Iranian aircraft flew into a known no-fly zone, all attempts to contact the plane failed, it was shot down. Why didn't the Iranian pilot acknowledge or respond when he had the chance? Some say the Iranians purposely sacrificed the plane in an attempt to rally international support to their side, either way, it's old news, get over it.

Answer 6

It was a mistake. I've spoken to a couple of people that were there when it went down. What you should be asking is: Why were nearly all the bodies naked? Why did the iranian government step in and deny the U.S. the opportunity to pay restitution to the families?

Answer 7

Can you think of any reason that the US would want to *intentionally* kill 200 citizens while the world watched? How could that possibly benefit them?

It sounds to me like a terrible, tragic mistake. But there sure could be reasons that I can't think of. And mankind has so far not proven itself to be especially kind. Especially governments.

Answer 8

The US were under the impression that the civil flight was one of the fighter aircraft sold to the Iranians by guess who...

Answer 9

It depends on who you ask: the U.S. Navy or the Iranian government. The answers differ between the two groups.

Answer 10

If you want to go back in history, you will find many type incidents such at this against most everyone. Move on dear.....this is now ancient history.