You may not be old enough to remember. There was also speculation the shoot down was payback for the Iranians taking down the Arrow military charter flight taking off from Gander. The Iranian’s motive was they got screwed by Ollie and Reagan in the embassy hostage exchange. Ollie sent them Hawk missile that had been rigged to not work.
Interesting the Captain and crew we’re not disiplined. I think the Captain got a letter in his file. That’s it.
There were reports Barry instigated the border invasion. Nothing official though.
There’s always the word on the street from back channels and then the official SRM version for public consumption.
I’m not going to spend hours digging through archives to satisfy some anal computer geek.
I was over 30 at the time. Is that old enough?