“We think we know anyway, but we need to hear it,” Margaret O’Connor, 71, told the Guardian. “We don’t understand how they can keep it a secret after 51 years.”
“It was the cold war and a very different era when the crash happened, so I can understand why they classified it at the time. But now, half a century later, they have to put us through this every September. I just want it to stop.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/10/flight-af1611-and-families-51-year-wait-for-truth-about-french-plane-crash

Same situation as JAL flight 123.
#aviation #shotdown

Air France Flight 1611was shot down.

"In 2011, Michael Laty, a former army employee, told French television the aircraft had been hit by a heat-seeking missile that had veered off target and hit one of the Caravelle’s engines. “I typed up an army investigation into the affair; it was kept secret in the national interest. The Caravelle was shot down. We brought down a civil aircraft instead of the programmed target,” Laty said."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/10/flight-af1611-and-families-51-year-wait-for-truth-about-french-plane-crash
#aviation #shotdown