{Sir, If an Argentinian plane....}[c9th September 1983]

[Redbook2:305A][19830909c]{Sir, If an Argentinian plane....}[c9^th September 1983]

Sir,

If an Argentinian plane, having the appearance of a civilian aircraft, were to approach beyond the exclusion zone of the Falklands and refuse to obey or acknowledge all attempts made to divert it, as the Reverend Claude Riches postulates (September 9), might not the attitude of the British military authorities depend upon whether or not Argentina and Britain had agreed that hostilities had ceased?

Part of the shock caused by the destruction of the Korean airliner* arises from the fact that a nation** with which many in the West thought we were at peace has behaved as though we were at war.

Does it suggest something about our reaction to this that, of the six letters on this subject in The Times of 9/9/83, five end with question marks?

*[On September 1, 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by Soviet fighter jets over the Sea of Japan near Moneron Island just west of Sakhalin island, having strayed off-course over prohibited Soviet airspace. All 269 passengers and crew aboard were killed. (Edited from Wikipedia, '1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident')]

**[The Soviet Union]

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