Originally Posted by
Oro-o
That is wholly untrue on both counts.
USN Adm. Fogarty's official review of the case and data - based on bridge data from the multiple U.S. ships - and released in a timely matter after the event, makes plain that the aircraft was acting innocently, and assesses blame on the bridge crew. It was ackowledged clearly, timely as these things go.
The U.S. settled claims and reparations on this in the early 90s.
Actually the US Navy only expressed regret the incident occurred, but they never apologised. Initially they maintained the aircraft was military and was flying an attack profile against the ship. It took until 8 years later (under a different administration I should add) for them to offer the statement of regret and agree to pay some compensation to the victims in return for Iran dropping its case in front of the International Court of Justice.
Without knowing all the facts, how can you not say the BUK crew didn't also misidentify MH17 as a military aircraft? Will Russia's position change once a new leader is in power?
At least Putin hasn't publicly awarded medals to the missile crew yet.