"Miloch" wrote in message news:qeispj0vs1@drn.newsguy.com...
https://splinternews.com/brian-kilmeade-is-losing-it-because-trump-didnt-start-a-1835726252
On Thursday night, President Donald Trump called off a retaliatory strike
against Iranian regime targets at the last minute. The strike, which was
meant to be a response to the Iranian downing of an unmanned surveillance
drone, was already underway when Trump abruptly called it off, as the New
York Times first reported.
He wouldn't have called if off had that missile taken out the wrong target.
From what I just heard on ABC News, that SAM passed within a few miles of a
civilian cargo flight. Had it picked the wrong radar track...
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FAA bars U.S. airlines from Iranian airspace over Strait of Hormuz and Gulf
of Oman after drone shot down
BY DAVID MARTIN, FIN GOMEZ AND CAMILO MONTOYA-GALVEZ
JUNE 21, 2019
Dubai, United Arab Emirates -- The U.S. on Friday barred American-registered
aircraft from flying over Iranian-administered airspace in the Persian Gulf
and the Gulf of Oman. The move, in reaction to Iran's Revolutionary Guard
shooting down a U.S. military surveillance drone, affects a region crucial
to global air travel.
The Federal Aviation Administration warned of a "potential for
miscalculation or misidentification" in the region after an Iranian
surface-to-air missile on Thursday brought down a U.S. Navy RQ-4A Global
Hawk, an unmanned aircraft with a wingspan larger than a Boeing 737 jetliner
and costing over $100 million.
U.S. officials have confirmed to CBS News that President Trump ordered
limited strikes on Iran in response, but then called them off at the 11th
hour on Thursday evening for unknown reasons.
The FAA previously warned of a risk in the region, but Friday's warning
threw into stark relief a danger both it and analysts warned was real after
the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines flight over Ukraine in 2014. That
could further imperil the bottom lines of Gulf long-haul carriers, which
already have faced challenges under the Trump administration.
"The threat of a civil aircraft shoot-down in southern Iran is real," warned
OPSGROUP, a company that provides guidance to global airlines.
The FAA made a similar warning in May to commercial airliners of the
possibility of Iranian anti-aircraft gunners mistaking them for military
aircraft, something dismissed by Tehran.
Iran had no immediate reaction to the U.S. announcement.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-drone-shootdown-faa-bars-us-airline-flights-iranian-airspace-strait-of-hormuz-gulf-of-oman-2019-06-21/
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