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0 pointsdmix9y ago0 comments

> until Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in the 1980s

Woah, the soviets shot down a Korean airliner with air-to-air missles killing 269 people? Never heard that story. Crazy.

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Yeah, that was definitely the #1 story in the news when it happened. Much like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 there's no shortage of uncertainty around the real story.

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0 pointsdmix9y ago0 comments

> until Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in the 1980s

Woah, the soviets shot down a Korean airliner with air-to-air missles killing 269 people? Never heard that story. Crazy.

Yeah, that was definitely the #1 story in the news when it happened. Much like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 there's no shortage of uncertainty around the real story.

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