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Originally Posted by Cherry7
But then before that we have the cause...
Iran Air Flight 655 (IR655) was a civilian jet airliner shot down by U.S. missiles on 3 July 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz, toward the end of the Iran?Iraq War. The aircraft, an Airbus A300B2-203 operated by Iran Air, was flying from Bandar Abbas, Iran, to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf on its usual flight path when it was destroyed by the U.S. Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes, killing all 290 passengers and crew aboard, including 65 children,[1] ranking it twelfth among the deadliest disasters in aviation history. It was the highest death toll of any aviation incident in the Indian Ocean and the highest death toll of any incident involving an Airbus A300 anywhere in the world.
So it is unlikely that the Libyans did it. The Iranians had the motive, revenge for an American crime.
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There is a difference between planning an intentional crime and an accident. The US ship thought it was an F15 and blew it out of the sky. The Russians did something similar with a Korean passenger jet - yet no one turned around blew a Russian passenger jet out of the sky.