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1988: US warship shoots down Iranian airliner

An American naval warship patrolling in the Persian Gulf has shot down an Iranian passenger jet after apparently mistaking it for an F-14 fighter.

All those on board the airliner - almost 300 people - are believed dead. 

The plane, an Airbus A300, was making a routine flight from Bandar Abbas, in Iran, to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. 

The USS Vincennes had tracked the plane electronically and warned it to keep away. When it did not the ship fired two surface-to-air missiles, at least one of which hit the airliner.

Navy officials said the Vincennes' crew believed they were firing at an Iranian F14 jet fighter, although they had not confirmed this visually.

Thats a major fk up so Iran do have some room for bitching....

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14 hours ago, Rob Plant said:

I believe that US citizens can now freely go to Cuba as they once used to do, maybe that is down to economic pressures ie sanctions.

I have been to Cuba and it is a total mess regarding infrastructure, and to get to work each and every day people flock to their nearest crossroads (intersection) and wait for a govt vehicle to pass which they take it turns to flag down and the driver HAS to stop and take them to wherever they work. If nobody goes past then nobody can get to work! Crazy place! 

Yep the regime there is a shining beacon for communism. A leader worth $billions while his people suffer in abject poverty with no hope of a better future. The only thing the locals enjoy is drinking rum at the local shack to drown their sorrows!

They have NO access to any media from outside and still have to go to the main square to hear proclamations from their all powerful leader to know what is going on in their own country and the world at large (according to him obviously).

Are you seriously saying the best way to get regime change is through the UN???

That of course has never happened and never will as it is a toothless organisation in urgent need of reform.

You did make me chuckle when I read it, I'm actually not sure if you're poking fun or if you are serious, I hope the former.

Cuba was shut down primarily as it was being used to supply Heroin to the USA and Mafia gambling was ruining the Cuban culture once Castro threw them out they moved to Montreal then Kennedy was assasinated after BOP. Cuba was given to the Russians because the USA was treating it like the devils playground.

 

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6 hours ago, James Regan said:

DT is looking like a true head of state now, his whole body language has changed he actually looks and sounds like a leader and not a boss.

Cheers man.

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16 minutes ago, James Regan said:

Cuba was shut down primarily as it was being used to supply Heroin to the USA and Mafia gambling was ruining the Cuban culture once Castro threw them out they moved to Montreal then Kennedy was assasinated after BOP. Cuba was given to the Russians because the USA was treating it like the devils playground.

 

Comedy gold - with apologies to @DayTrader.

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22 minutes ago, remake it said:

Comedy gold - with apologies to @DayTrader.

Thankyou for the Trophy Remakeit , ill consider it a compliment 謝謝
Xièxiè

😂😂😂😂 XieXie in Portugese is something else, currently XieXieing myself laughing.

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59 minutes ago, James Regan said:

 

1988: US warship shoots down Iranian airliner

An American naval warship patrolling in the Persian Gulf has shot down an Iranian passenger jet after apparently mistaking it for an F-14 fighter.

All those on board the airliner - almost 300 people - are believed dead. 

The plane, an Airbus A300, was making a routine flight from Bandar Abbas, in Iran, to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. 

The USS Vincennes had tracked the plane electronically and warned it to keep away. When it did not the ship fired two surface-to-air missiles, at least one of which hit the airliner.

Navy officials said the Vincennes' crew believed they were firing at an Iranian F14 jet fighter, although they had not confirmed this visually.

Thats a major fk up so Iran do have some room for bitching....

 

It wasn't a mistake. It was intentional.

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On 1/8/2020 at 7:57 PM, Tom Kirkman said:

Weird times indeed when a porn star is the voice of (relative) reason.

And just exactly HOW do you know she is a "porn star"? 

Inquiring minds want to know......

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4 hours ago, Enthalpic said:

if you can't convince people on this far-right, pro-trump, echo-chamber perhaps you are wrong.

I will admit some of the latest numbers show a little improvement on the China trade imbalance but that is far from a victory as the imbalance is still huge. Like they were up 12 to 1 and trump scores one goal; 12 - 2 is not a victory.

Walmart isn't going to stop their purchase orders on a dime, they've got to keep the stores open. You think this is a sprint, while what Tom and I and others have been saying is it's a marathon

 

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12 minutes ago, Ward Smith said:

You think this is a sprint, while what Tom and I and others have been saying is it's a marathon

If so then it was lost a very long time ago and the best the USA can do is hope to rein in the yawning gap.

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2 hours ago, HermitMunster said:

 

It wasn't a mistake. It was intentional.

Im Sure it was intentional to hit what they were aiming at of that I have zero doubt, that the idea of aiming. Are you saying they knew what they aiming at?

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6 hours ago, Jabbar said:

Taking Soleimani out of Iranian leadership is like . . . . 

.  .  .  .  .  In your American Football a defensive end knocking Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson out of the Super Bowl game.  

It will have a substantial impact on Iranian terrorist operational activity.

It also may have created a situation whereby moderate Iranian leaders now have more input.

If that's true, then why are there more rockets landing on US embassies and bases then before Soleimani died? 

Edited January 10, 2020 by Zhong Lu

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10 hours ago, Jan van Eck said:

And just exactly HOW do you know she is a "porn star"? 

Inquiring minds want to know......

An anon mentioned that she was, and so I googled her name to find out who she is.  This isn't difficult.  And I also checked out some of her other tweets, she seems remarkably astute in her tweets:

https://twitter.com/jennajameson

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11 hours ago, remake it said:

Comedy gold - with apologies to @DayTrader.

Have you been there?

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22 minutes ago, Tom Kirkman said:

An anon mentioned that she was, and so I googled her name to find out who she is.  This isn't difficult.  And I also checked out some of her other tweets, she seems remarkably astute in her tweets:

https://twitter.com/jennajameson

Just because she is a porn star doesn't make her stupid Tom, lot of money in porn (apparently)

Hey look at Stormy Daniels!

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17 minutes ago, Rob Plant said:

Just because she is a porn star doesn't make her stupid Tom, lot of money in porn (apparently)

Hey look at Stormy Daniels!

It’s always baffled me how people value someone’s intellect based on their occupation or accent.

It is common in the US, and internationally (likely due to their portrayal in Hollywood), to assume an American with a Southern or Appalachian accent is dimwitted.

In business, engineering, finance and last but not least, the oilfield, you believe this at your peril.

Many of the smartest people that I have met in my career did not have a university degree.

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1 hour ago, Tom Kirkman said:

and so I googled her name to find out who she is

I thought you used duck-duck-go?

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9 minutes ago, Rasmus Jorgensen said:

I thought you used duck-duck-go?

I use both.  "Google" is a generally a generic verb.  Like saying "Q-Tip" for any brand of cotton on a stick that you use for cleaning your ears.

My default browser is Brave with DuckDuckGo.

My secondary browser is Chrome with Google.

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5 hours ago, Douglas Buckland said:

It’s always baffled me how people value someone’s intellect based on their occupation or accent.

It is common in the US, and internationally (likely due to their portrayal in Hollywood), to assume an American with a Southern or Appalachian accent is dimwitted.

In business, engineering, finance and last but not least, the oilfield, you believe this at your peril.

Many of the smartest people that I have met in my career did not have a university degree.

These good old boys were the guys I wanted next to me during a kick, saw it in action a few times, engineers running around shitting themselves and old Digger or Beauregard Striker lolling around with a steaming fist ☕️ and big old wad of dip communicating with the well as if by telepathy. 

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5 hours ago, Rob Plant said:

Just because she is a porn star doesn't make her stupid Tom, lot of money in porn (apparently)

Hey look at Stormy Daniels!

The money’s not bad , I managed to weather the slump, paid the bills!

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1 hour ago, James Regan said:

The money’s not bad , I managed to weather the slump, paid the bills!

You never returned the gimp mask!

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3 hours ago, Rob Plant said:

You never returned the gimp mask!

It’s with Zed, oh but Zeds Dead..... 

Edited January 10, 2020 by James Regan
Currently trying out wife’s marigolds over head😂

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41 minutes ago, James Regan said:

It’s with Zed, oh but Zeds Dead..... 

Zeds dead baby!😂

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9 hours ago, James Regan said:

The money’s not bad , I managed to weather the slump, paid the bills!

The mental picture of something akin to ‘Jimmy Does Jamaica’ is....frightening!😂

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9 hours ago, James Regan said:

These good old boys were the guys I wanted next to me during a kick, saw it in action a few times, engineers running around shitting themselves and old Digger or Beauregard Striker lolling around with a steaming fist ☕️ and big old wad of dip communicating with the well as if by telepathy. 

James, as a subsea engineer you’ll laugh at this...

I was on the spider deck working on the LMRP while towing to a new location when I was given the job of rigging up to get the blown engine block on the port pedestal crane down onto the main deck. As you know, the subsea department gets all the ‘odd’ jobs on the rig not strictly associated with the drill string (😂).

While I was getting the port spider deck tuggers remounted to face outboard, rigging up snatch blocks and generally trying to look busy while I figured out how I was going to do this, one of the roughnecks we called Ug (we could barely understand him when he spoke), from way back in the Louisiana swamps, stopped by me and said, “What you doing, Doug?”.

I explained my problem to him, he thought about it for a minute, then told me that if I placed a snatch block here and her, rigged up the tugger there, then did X,Y and Z, that I’d have the engine block on the deck in short order.

He then walked off to the galley as if this was just a normal day at the office for him! Heck, I’d probably STILL be trying to figure it out!

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3 hours ago, Douglas Buckland said:

James, as a subsea engineer you’ll laugh at this...

I was on the spider deck working on the LMRP while towing to a new location when I was given the job of rigging up to get the blown engine block on the port pedestal crane down onto the main deck. As you know, the subsea department gets all the ‘odd’ jobs on the rig not strictly associated with the drill string (😂).

While I was getting the port spider deck tuggers remounted to face outboard, rigging up snatch blocks and generally trying to look busy while I figured out how I was going to do this, one of the roughnecks we called Ug (we could barely understand him when he spoke), from way back in the Louisiana swamps, stopped by me and said, “What you doing, Doug?”.

I explained my problem to him, he thought about it for a minute, then told me that if I placed a snatch block here and her, rigged up the tugger there, then did X,Y and Z, that I’d have the engine block on the deck in short order.

He then walked off to the galley as if this was just a normal day at the office for him! Heck, I’d probably STILL be trying to figure it out!

He learnt Riganomatry , Yep these guys are impressive. I have come across loads and had to eat my initial thoughts 💭 

we need to start a rig story thread, there must be loads out there.