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...worse. On Sunday morning the Navy cruiser U.S.S. Vincennes, while battling several Iranian speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz, mistakenly shot down an Iranian commercial airliner. Iran said the Airbus A300 "exploded in the sky," killing all 298 people on board. Officers on the Vincennes had believed the aircraft was an Iranian F-14 fighter jet that was attacking the U.S. ship. The tragedy immediately invited comparison with the 1983 downing by the Soviet Union of a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747, a disaster that killed 269 people and stirred outrage around the world...
...perhaps the more relevant comparison--at least to explain why Captain Will C. Rogers III shot at the mistakenly-identified aircraft--is the U.S.S. Stark tragedy of just over a year ago. In that incident, Capt. Glenn R. Brindel failed to respond to Iraqi planes attacking his ship, and 37 members of his crew died as a result. After an ensuing investigation, Brindel was forced to retire from the navy...
...mode 2," according to Howard, "is peculiar to military aircraft." He said "no commercial airlines use mode...
...Congressmen last week, U.S. Attorney Henry Hudson disclosed that he is probing the awards of 75 to 100 contracts, worth "tens of billions" of dollars. That might even be an understatement. Just one of those contracts, calling for McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics to build the advanced tactical aircraft for the Navy, could be worth at least $45 billion...
...bids. That could lead to chaos in procurement and delay production of some weapons systems for years. But the brass may have no choice: if investigators prove that a contract was obtained illegally, a court may rule that contract invalid. For example, Grumman Corp. lost the advanced tactical aircraft contract to the combine of McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics. If allegations in Ill Wind search warrants are proved correct, Grumman could sue to have a new competition...