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jgilias on Nov 29, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user int...

The details are in the posted thread.

Basically, heading and location came from one plane, identification from another plane, and altitude yet from another one for reasons.

vkaku on Nov 29, 2023 [–]

Thank you. Did go through the whole thing. Talk about complicated systems, lack of documentation, work stress and then branding it a personnel failure. Totally unlike most systems today (not!)

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