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		kortilla on Nov 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user int... They were in wartime, you answered your own question. >I image "UX error" wouldn't cut it if a chinese missile cruiser shot down an US airliner while steaming up the Hudson. Yes, that would be up for debate if the US were in an active war with China.

knallfrosch on Nov 29, 2023 [–]

Iran was at war with Iraq, not the US with Iran.

AdamN on Nov 29, 2023 | [–]

The US and Iran had been in a cold war since 1979 with flareups the entire time all the way through to the current day.

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