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Article: Air Force: United States warplane flies into Syrian airspace by mistake

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November 6, 2002
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A United States F-16 fighter jet flew into Syrian airspace mistakenly while on a flight to northern Iraq, a US Air Force spokesman in Turkey said on Tuesday.The plane, on a mission Monday out of the Turkish base at Incirlik, in the southern part of the country, deviated from its course and "inadvertently entered Syria", according to Major Scott Covode."It was recalled by US controllers as soon as they determined the plane was off course," he said."We regret the accidental in-flight border crossing," ...

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