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Article: DETAILS ON JET DOWNING STIR NEW DOUBTS IRAN PLANE MAY HAVE BEEN IN PROPER CORRIDOR
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 7, 1988
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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci told members of
Congress yesterday that the Iranian airliner shot down by a US ship
over the Persian Gulf Sunday may not have been flying outside the
commercial air traffic corridor, may not have been descending and
may not have been veering off course toward the US cruiser,
according to several people who attended the session.
"We are noting that the Department of Defense is saying one
thing in public and another in private," said an aide to a House
Democratic leader.
During the first two days after the downing, Adm. William J.
Crowe, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Pentagon spokesman
Dan Howard and other officials said the Iran ...