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Sometimes radar "tracks" are misread, as in the American shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988, killing all of the 290 passengers and crew aboard.  Airborne dust and the fact that the plane was approaching head-on misled the radar crew. They also claimed the plane was four miles outside the commercial flight path.<ref>http://www.history.com/content/militaryblunders/iran-air-shot-down</ref>

Sometimes radar "tracks" are misread, as in the American shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988, killing all of the 290 passengers and crew aboard.  Airborne dust and the fact that the plane was approaching head-on misled the radar crew. They also claimed the plane was four miles outside the commercial flight path.<ref>http://www.history.com/content/militaryblunders/iran-air-shot-down</ref>

==see also==

==See Also==

* [[World War II in the Air]]

* [[World War II in the Air]]

==References==

==References==

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