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Old 3rd Jun 2011, 21:17
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Compelling video of Iranian aircraft falling from sky

Watch the space behind the F-4: <http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f0a_1307112708>

This LiveLeak video is erroneously identified as the [July 2009] Caspian Airlines Tu-154 Crash near Qazvin, Iran. Details at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Airlines_Flight_7908>.

More probably, it is the Sept. 22, 2009 crash of an Iranian IL-76MD AWACS after a midair with an F-5E, details at: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Iranian_Air_Force_mid-air_collision>.

In the latter instance, the aircraft were involved at the time in a flyby as part of an observance of the beginning of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War.

Incidentally, for those who have read all the F-4 Vietnam war tales, and/or those of Israeli F-4s in conflict, the remaining largely untold chapter of F-4 warfighting is grippingly described in a book about Iranian F-4s during the Iran-Iraq war: <http://www.amazon.com/Combat-Aircraft-37-Iranian-Phantom/dp/1841766585>
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Old 3rd Jun 2011, 21:25
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Links fixed; it is not necessary to put any leading or ending characters on this system, straight URL's work fine,

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f0a_1307112708

Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2009 Iranian Air Force mid-air collision - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Amazon.com: Combat Aircraft 37: Iranian F-4 Phantom II Units in Combat (9781841766584): Farzad Bishop, Jim Laurier: Books Amazon.com: Combat Aircraft 37: Iranian F-4 Phantom II Units in Combat (9781841766584): Farzad Bishop, Jim Laurier: Books
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We have had this posted quite recently. Then it was described as a result of the radar radome becoming detached and removing the tailplane.
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