A chilling tweet from Iran took on a whole new meaning when a Ukrainian passenger jet was shot out of the sky last week. This is what it meant.
Meanwhile, at the very nearby Bandar Abbas International Airport in Iran, flight IR655 was running behind schedule.Source:istock
The captain turned on the plane’s transponder — a device that receives and transmits signals about the aircraft’s identification and location — and the plane began its journey across the chaotic waters of the Persian Gulf. The USS Vincennes launches a missile during an exercise in 1987. That was the same launcher used to bring down IR655. Picture: Wikimedia Commonsfired two surface-to-air missiles. One of them struck the Airbus A300, which immediately blew apart and crashed into the water.
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