Sorry I left the thread so soon to take care of things, but there are some very interesting posts already. RRAAMJET has the exact infromation on what I had read in Flight International, thanks. Whoaaa must have missed the investigation on the KAL-007 shoot down over the Sea of Okhotsk, I feel for the Russian pilot who has to live with so many lives on his consciense. Antisthenes gets all worked up over there, have a cup of tea, relax and enjoy the thread, we are just commenting here, lighten up. Ops cop seems to have a better understanding on the way those missiles work. A and C, as for the reason the B-757 escaped impact, I can only guess that it was too close for the missile to be armed as it is mentioned in the original article, but then again, I only fly airplanes, I don't know zilch about missiles.
Lomapaseo wrote :"I'm not saying the word "never" but there is a probability that means it is far more likely that it won't suceed with pilots that follow their training to fly with deteriorated systems.." ... I can only comment on that, that you do trust a lot your flight crews to come up with something extraordinary, that will rely basically on a great degree of airmanship. With multiple systems failures and without knowing the extend of the physical(aerodynamic) damage done by a missile will put that crew in a situation that they have never seen in a simulator and have never trained for, thence, the doubtful outcome.