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Old July 1st 07, 08:59 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Matt Barrow[_4_]
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Default Airplane shot down in Colombia


"Flydive" wrote in message
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Jay Honeck wrote:
The United States is signatory to treaties prohibiting firing upon
civilian aircraft, but regularly violates these treaties. This is
behavior that we used to associate with the worst aspects of the Soviet
Union and other rogue states.


Just curious: When has the US ever fired on civilian aircraft?
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I kind of remember something about an Iranian Airbus......


That was violating several ICAO rules, IIRC.