trained because they did not identify the aircraft as friend or foe with the iff- system and shot down a airliner. i want to explain to the viewers why is a plane near a war- torn country like iraq and ucan t. a lot of it is economic. flight times are extended and that is more fuel and pilots et cetera. and what is the alternative and if you can t cancel flights all over the world and that would drive the airline industries in to bankruptcy essentially with the amount of money it costs and what do you do? do you fit airliners with missile defense technology and that is something that hasn t been done? some business jets that fly in high threat regions do that. but the pilots go through