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...ICAO report stated that the Vincennes had no radio equipment capable of monitoring the channels used by civilian aircraft talking to the control tower at nearby Bandar Abbas. If it had, its crew could have heard Flight 655 get course and altitude instructions placing it near the ship. When the Vincennes became alarmed, it and the U.S.S. Sides sent seven vaguely worded warnings on an emergency military frequency that the airliner could not receive. They also sent four challenges on a civilian distress channel, but they were not specifically directed at any particular aircraft. Finally, the Sides sent a twelfth...
...died, as did eight crew members. In a long-awaited final report on the disaster, the Canadian Aviation Safety Board last week said, as expected, that the probable cause of the crash was icing: a sandpaper-thin coating on the wings that diminished their ability to lift the aircraft...
...their minority report, the dissenters piece together this chain of events: explosions aboard the aircraft ignited an in-flight fire that may have caused system failures and a crash. As evidence, they point to a pathologist's report that found combustion residues in the lungs of more than 70 of the victims, indicating there was a fire in the plane before the final impact killed all the passengers. They cite eyewitness accounts from two truck drivers who saw a yellow glow under the belly of the crippled DC-8 as it plunged to earth. The four also charge that...
From the same area, as well as from the European part of the U.S.S.R., 800 combat aircraft and 8,500 artillery systems will be withdrawn...
While the Warsaw Pact would maintain a solid numerical advantage in combat planes (8,250 vs. 3,977 for NATO), the West's fighters and assault aircraft are considered better at providing support for ground troops. The Soviet pullback of roughly 10% of the Warsaw Pact's European-theater aircraft, while not large, would signal a shift toward a defensive stance. The cut in artillery would be a hefty 20% slash in existing Warsaw Pact firepower along the central front. But the total cut is less significant; the Soviet bloc could still field some 34,900 artillery pieces, mortars...