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WASHINGTON--Photographic evidence shows Libya lied when it claimed the two planes that the United States shot down over the Mediterranean Sea were unarmed reconnaissance aircraft, the Reagan Administration said yesterday...
...They've gone out yesterday and said repeatedly that those were unarmed reconnaissance aircraft. Well, we have the pictures now that they were not unarmed aircraft," Howard told a Pentagon briefing...
...They were obviously armed aircraft with obviously hostile intent. We believe that our aircraft commanders behaved in a prudent manner in defending themselves, in defending their aircraft and in defending their ship," he said...
...Clipper Maid of the Seas, the 15th 747 to come off the Boeing production line, had been in service since February 1970 and had made some 16,500 takeoffs and landings. Despite the plane's age and length of service, however, most aviation experts would not rate the aircraft as particularly worn or fatigued. Moreover, the airline pointed out that the plane had been fully refitted 15 months ago and was checked and serviced in San Francisco only a week before the crash...
...Atlantic off the coast of Ireland in June 1985, killing all 329 people aboard. The subsequent investigation, aided by the underwater recovery of the plane's flight recorder, or "black box," determined that a bomb in the forward cargo hold had blown off the front section of the aircraft. Sikh extremists were suspected of the crime, but no one was ever charged. In the case of the Pan Am crash, Kyd said, "sabotage cannot be ruled...