News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Finland and Sweden set to join NATO as soon as summer. Parent comment

Re:Finland and Sweden set to join NATO as soon as summer by lalaland1125 on Monday April 11, 2022 @01:54PM (#30992391)
The US admitted that they shot down Iran Air Flight 655 within hours and issued an apology.

Russia still denies Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 years later.

This is a bad comparison.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Finland and Sweden set to join NATO as soon as summer by FpUser on Monday April 11, 2022 @07:26PM (#30996525)
There was settlement. No official apology. The US "expressed regret" you can read about it on Wikipedia. The USS Vincente shot down civilian aircraft that was transmitting whatever signal it was required to be recognized as civilian. Yes it was an accident. They did not have it as their mission to down passenger airliner.
[ Parent | on HN ]