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Old 07-25-2014, 04:33 PM  
Rochard
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That is pretty much it...except as I recall events...the ship was in a location that it was not supposed to be in...the fault of the Captain...and the crew tracking the airliner fucked up...and was providing incorrect information to the Captain. If the Captain would have not put his ship in the location that it was and the tracking crew had not fucked up they would have known that it was a commercial aircraft and it would not have been shot down. The "fog of war" so to speak.
The ship had violated the territorial waters of two countries. However, once bullets are flying, the concept of "territorial waters" goes straight out the water and is irrelevant.
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