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Flight 752 was mostly shot down by Iran
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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4329361" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p>Sounds to me like the US shoot down occurred within a more understandable context.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Will" target="_blank">Operation Earnest Will - Wikipedia</a></p><p></p><p>”On 3 July 1988, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Vincennes_(CG-49)" target="_blank">USS Vincennes</a>, while engaged in a fierce gun duel with Iranian boats, mistook <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655" target="_blank">Iran Air Flight 655</a> for an Iranian friend-14 and shot it down over the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz" target="_blank">Strait of Hormuz</a>. All 290 passengers and aircrew aboard the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus" target="_blank">Airbus</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A300" target="_blank">A300B2</a> died, including 66 children.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4329361, member: 48469"] Sounds to me like the US shoot down occurred within a more understandable context. [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Will']Operation Earnest Will - Wikipedia[/URL] ”On 3 July 1988, [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Vincennes_(CG-49)']USS Vincennes[/URL], while engaged in a fierce gun duel with Iranian boats, mistook [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655']Iran Air Flight 655[/URL] for an Iranian friend-14 and shot it down over the [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz']Strait of Hormuz[/URL]. All 290 passengers and aircrew aboard the [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus']Airbus[/URL] [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A300']A300B2[/URL] died, including 66 children.” [/QUOTE]
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