"It is unlikely that the US government are going to admit that they shot down an airliner for obvious reasons."
Anyone remember the 130 stolen out of Mildenhall by the despondent enlisted crewmember in the late '60's? The guy got about and hour west of England and decided his airmanship wasn't up to a transatlantic hop on his first solo flight. The British Air Marshal declared, "He will not land that aircraft on British soil." F-4's were scrambled out of Lakenheath and they shot him down.
I worked with a pilot who was a crew chief at the time with this guy --and I married the daughter of the Mildenhall Fire Chief at the time. (He was scared to death the guy would crash on base!)
Not sure if that one made the London Times.
PT
