Originally Posted by
Cedrik
How did the fighter strike the prop disc without taking out the tailplane which is considerably higher?
Why all the fuss?
The western world wasn't as outraged when American military shot down an Airbus killing 290 people, hypocrisy?
I don't think there is a lot of fuss over this. No one I know is talking about it. We are because we are aviation geeks.
Trying not to get political, start a flame war or drag this thread too far off topic I do agree that we have in the past been very nationality centric.
Like that old "Not The Nine O'clock News" joke. An airliner crashed today and the fatalities in order of importance were two Brits, three Americans and a Belgium but his accent wasn't very good.
We have in the past thought of foreigners as not as important as us. I think that attitude is changing but it is still there.