Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passengers, crew and their families." At 1:30 p.m. a tense and obviously tired Admiral William Crowe, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, strode into the Pentagon briefing room to deliver the shocking details to the waiting reporters. He explained that the Vincennes had fired on the plane only after giving it several chances to identify itself. Crowe defended the actions of the Vincennes and its commander, Captain William C. Rogers of Fort Worth, as entirely proper, and said a full investigation would be conducted by Rear Admiral William N. Fogarty...
...Iranian surface vessels. Before long the Vincennes was in combat with at least three armed Iranian speedboats, two of which were sunk and a third damaged. During that battle, the radar aboard the Vincennes detected an aircraft heading toward the ship at high speed -- approximately 520 m.p.h. The plane was at least four or five miles away from any air corridor normally used by commercial jets. Crowe insisted that the Vincennes had tried to communicate with the aircraft seven times. "But the aircraft neither answered nor changed its course," said Crowe. The admiral reported that "electronic indications" aboard the Vincennes...
...immediate reaction most of us had to last weekend's downing of an Iranian jetliner by a U.S. Navy warship was one of deja vu. The comparisons with the Soviet Union's shooting of a Korean Air Lines passenger plane with 269 people aboard over the Sea of Japan in 1983 proved too tempting to pass up: both passenger planes were off-course and reportedly did not (or could not) respond to military warnings, both superpowers ended up shooting down civilian planes and receiving world-wide condemnation for their action...
...Iranian jetliner flew toward the Vincennes, the plane's transponder was sending out signals through two channels, Howard said. He identified them as "mode 3" and "mode...
...mode 2" transmitting device "is a specific piece of equipment that has to be put on" a plane, Howard said...