CS.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (09/02/83)
From: Werner Uhrig <CS.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA>
By now, I guess everyone knows about it and I am certainly as
distressed as anyone about the event. The media seems to have
woken up from their summer-news slump and seem to be
"hyperventilating" and interviewing John Doe and his dog
about their reactions. Let's have a little informed discussion
here without much voicing of disgust - that is assumed to
rattle in everyone's guts, just by thinking that "I could have
been in the plane".
From the facts, it sounds possible that the events may have gone
as follows.
The Korean pilot thinks he is on course and decides to disregard
the warnings.
or The Korean pilot is never aware of the Russians, and gets shot
down without warning and knowledge of the danger.
or The Russian does all the blinking of the lights and rocking of
the wings to the left front and gets no reaction. His head
will roll (remember '78, he thinks, as the 747 heads back out over
the Japanese Sea), and everyone in the line of command he talks
to decides the "safe" thing to do is to implement standing orders
"that after every attempt has been made to force the intruder
to land, and in the face of the intruder leaving the Russian
air-space, SHOOT." No distinction on type of plane.
Could it have happened to a PANAM jet ?????
Werner (UUCP: ut-ngp!werner
via: { decvax!eagle , ucbvax!nbires , gatech!allegra!eagle , ihnp4 }
ARPA: werner@utexas-20 or werner@utexas-11 )
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