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		angiosperm on Nov 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user int... Yet, the USS Sides steaming nearby identified it correctly as a civilian flight with no difficulty.

hn_go_brrrrr on Nov 29, 2023 [–]

Presumably because their operator did not make the same mistake as the one on the Vincennes?

angiosperm on Dec 2, 2023 | [–]

And because they knew that flight went out the same time every day.

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