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The captain who shot down a passenger jet came home to a car bomb. πŸ’£
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The captain who shot down a passenger jet came home to a car bomb. πŸ’£

The captain who shot down a passenger jet came home to a car bomb. πŸ’£ . . . On July 3, 1988, USS Vincennes Captain Will Rogers III mistook Iran Air Flight 655 for a fighter and killed all 290 aboard. On March 10, 1989, a pipe bomb exploded under his wife Sharon's van in San Diego. She was driving at the time and escaped unharmed. The FBI never identified the bomber.

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