Originally Posted by
gr4techie
I don't understand Team America World Police, how they shot down Iran Air Flight 665 in 1988 because they thought it was an Iranian F-14. Yet offer no deterrent to the Russian SU-24 that was doing as it pleases.
Might be because you're as thick as a prop shaft.
26 years ago,
a different captain,
a different situation (note no surface action to distract the captain in this case)
Captain Rogers' Airbus event became a "lessons learned" training module,
a visual,
INCSEA agreements ...
so no, not the same thing at all.