1: Gabriel @ http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2012-October/226237.html
"the last TAIP flight took off overladen with the last of the families of the Portuguese in the dead of night. The Indian airforce, according to Bharat-Rakshak, was scrambled TO GIVE CHASE" 2: VRR (to Gabriel) @ http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2012-October/226257.html "Contrary to what you say about Indian fighter jets being scrambled TO SHOOT DOWN the fleeing refugee plane" 3: Gabriel (correcting himself by quoting Bharat-Rakshak) @ http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2012-October/226268.html 'After landing at Poona, we were ordered off again (...) TO INTERCEPT a target aircraft heading in a NNW direction off the coast, we never made contact.' Gabriel added: "Give chase" may have been too strong a word that I used. ---- COMMENT: 1: I submit that the phrase "Give chase" is actually milder than the term "Intercept'. 2: In error (no doubt), VRR misread/misquoted "give chase" as "shoot down". jc