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| Boilerpipe Text | On 3 July 1988, a sophisticated US Navy warship, the USS Vincennes, shot down an Iranian civilian airliner flying over the Persian Gulf.
All 290 on board the aircraft were killed, among them 66 children.
Rudy Pahoyo was a Navy Combat Cameraman who was filming on board the USS Vincennes that day.
Witness
: The stories of our times told by the people who were there. |
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# When the US shot down an Iranian airliner
On 3 July 1988, a sophisticated US Navy warship, the USS Vincennes, shot down an Iranian civilian airliner flying over the Persian Gulf.
All 290 on board the aircraft were killed, among them 66 children.
Rudy Pahoyo was a Navy Combat Cameraman who was filming on board the USS Vincennes that day.
[Witness](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t1hd)*: The stories of our times told by the people who were there.*
29 June 2018
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| Readable Markdown | On 3 July 1988, a sophisticated US Navy warship, the USS Vincennes, shot down an Iranian civilian airliner flying over the Persian Gulf.
All 290 on board the aircraft were killed, among them 66 children.
Rudy Pahoyo was a Navy Combat Cameraman who was filming on board the USS Vincennes that day.
[Witness](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t1hd)*: The stories of our times told by the people who were there.* |
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