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Originally Posted by mapuc
Minister of Defense in USA, say they heard these warnings to the pilots-The Russian pilot say they didn't get any warnings-Who's telling the truth ?
Markus
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They both could be. Air communications in aircraft are carried on multiple frequency as in any radio. If the Turks were broadcasting on one frequency, but the Russians were on another, they would not have heard the warnings.
You had the same issue when the U.S.S. Vincennes shot down Iran Air flight 355:
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According to the same reports, Vincennes tried unsuccessfully to contact the approaching aircraft, seven times on the military emergency frequency and three times on the civilian emergency frequency, but never on air traffic control frequencies. This civilian aircraft was not equipped to pick up military frequencies and the messages on the civilian emergency channel could have been directed at any aircraft. More confusion arose as the hailed speed was the ground speed, while the pilot's instruments displayed airspeed, which was 50-knot (93 km/h) different
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655