2008 Georgian spy plane shootdowns
It also claimed that white smoke trails such as seen behind the missile on the footage usually occur from land-to-air missile launches, and never with air-to-air missiles.
“This is not a full list of inconsistencies in the obviously edited video footage. [The footage does not give] a clear picture of when and where the video was recorded. If watched carefully, one can clearly see two roads parallel to the shoreline,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said. “But there aren't such roads in the indicated area of Abkhazia’s coast. Abkhazia's famous sand beaches - 100 meters in width - are not seen in the footage, even though they can be seen by satellite.”
White Star Line
Meanwhile, as a result of the IMMCo. takeover under J. Pierpont Morgan, White Star obtained four newly completed liners in the last months of 1903, they being the "Columbus", "Commonwealth", "New England" and "Mayflower". These four liners had been owned and operated by the Dominion Line for their services between Liverpool and Boston as well as their Mediterranean cruising and emigrant route, which also connected to Boston. However, the Dominion Line was also absorbed into the IMM scheme and the four ships were transferred to White Star. In addition to the acquisition of these ships, White Star also acquired control of the routes as well. Upon their acquisition by White Star, the four liners were respectively renamed "Republic", "Cretic", "Romanic" and "Canopic". These four ships were greatly similar in appearance to the "Cymric" and "Arabic", all with a single funnel with two or four masts, with engines geared to twin screws capable of service speeds between 14 and 16 knots. They all also fell within the same range in terms of dimensions, with lengths between 550 and 582 feet, beams between 59 and 67 feet, and gross tonnage as follows, "Republic" at 15,378 tons, "Cretic" 13,518 tons, "Romanic" at 11,394 tons and "Canopic" at 12,097 tons. There was, however, considerable variances in passenger capacities. "Republic", which in time would come to obtain the nickname 'The Millionaire's Ship', had the largest capacity with accommodations for 2,400 passengers (200 First Class, 200 Second Class, 2,000 Third Class). The three remaining ships had considerably smaller capacities, with the "Cretic" designed with accommodations for 1,510 passengers (260 First Class, 250 Second Class, 1,000 Third Class), "Romanic" with accommodations for 1,200 passengers (200 First Class, 200 Second Class, 800 Third Class) and "Canopic" with accommodations for 1,277 passengers (275 First Class, 232 Second Class, 770 Third Class).