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Plane approaches israel's shores? we have one precedent. it occurred 41 years ago in february 1973. when a libyan aircraft bound for cairo strayed into israeli controlled air space. israeli jets intercepted that libyan airliner, instructed it to land when it ignored the israeli instructions that airliner was shot down. all but five of the 114 people aboard died. israel paid compensation to the families. but that is the precedent. israel again has no margin fo for error for unidentified planes end, its air space. >> your defense minister at the time called that an err in judgment. it turned out...

Israeli jets intercepted that libyan airliner, instructed it to land when it ignored the israeli instructions that airliner was shot down. all but five of the 114 people aboard died. israel paid compensation to the families. but that is the precedent. israel again has no margin for error for unidentified planes end, its air space. >> your defense minister at the time called that an err in judgment. it turned out it was a sandstorm that had knocked their navigational equipment out. they weren't paying attention to the orders to land. that had to do with tensions there. my question now, is this ...

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