thanks for the link. As I recall, the main blame was on the captain, but it led me down a little bit of a rabbit hole regarding "Scenario Fulfillment" - very interesting to see it applied to situations other than the Vincennes.
Firstly, we don't actually know for sure that Iran shot the plane down. I'm not using that to evade - I think it's almost certainly what happened. But we should acknowledge that we aren't yet sure.
So what came of America shooting that plane down? 290 dead?
If that is the precedent that has been set, that is the minimum they should do.
Suicide bomber
Don't worry, you only fly Frontier Airlines. The Iranians know there would be no point in blowing up a plane full of hillbillies.
you could never convince people you shot it down, they'd just assume it fell out of the sky.
Then why bother invoking it to begin with? Oh, yeah. Edgy.
It'd be a good start, but the scenarios are quite a bit different.
Passenger planes shot down during a time of conflict... Seems to have numerous similarities.
i think the ways in which they're similar are less relevant than the ways they're dissimilar.
"We shot down someone else's airliner." is the correct way to put it.
It was mostly foreigners from other countries, and a foreign airliner. They also knew what would be in their own airspace at the time they decided to fire off their missiles.
