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Originally Posted by blankall
Planes travel really fast and high up. You're saying there's no chance the pilots missed the waiving civilians.
And yes the planes did deliberately attack the ship. They just thought it was an Egyptian ship. The Egyptian navy was known for trying to disguise their ships as Western ships.
Friendly fire incidents happen all the time. And yes it sucks for the victims and many of them must feel like they were purposely attacked.
And its not "all of the survivors" who claim the Israeli's attacked Americans intentionally. It's a few of them, as most people involved just state how confusing the incident was.
The majority of the Americans didn't die in the initial plane attack either. They died in a subsequent torpedo attack. An attack that occurred after American troops accidentally fired on Israeli torpedo boats.
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First off, if you're going to claim most survivors just claimed it was confusing then post links. I will gladly read them.
Secondly, planes do travel fast and high but it was said by survivors in the earlier links I posted that they travelled over them several times. I don't believe for one second they missed them that many times and the first things they shot at were the machine gun tubs on board and the antennas. They saw enough to see there were people on the machine gun tubs but couldn't see their American flag? or that the Navy ship was not armed at all with anything other than machine guns?. One would think if they were attacking the enemy they'd at least know what kind of fire power they were facing.