{"id":45697,"date":"2020-01-09T13:14:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T18:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=45697"},"modified":"2020-01-09T13:15:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T18:15:04","slug":"u-s-officials-confident-iran-shot-down-a-passenger-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2020\/01\/u-s-officials-confident-iran-shot-down-a-passenger-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. officials confident Iran shot down a passenger jet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. officials are confident Iran shot down a Ukrainian\njetliner in the hours after the Iranian missile attack on U.S. targets earlier\nthis week, CBS News has learned. The Ukrainian International Airlines plane\ncrashed Wednesday&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/plane-crash-in-iran-plane-crash-video-ukraine-plane-crash-jetliner-was-on-fire-before-crashing\/\">soon\nafter takeoff<\/a>&nbsp;from Tehran\u2019s airport, killing all 176 people on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" src=\"https:\/\/w3.cdn.anvato.net\/player\/prod\/v3\/anvload.html?key=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%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\"  width =\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. intelligence picked up signals of a radar being turned\non, sources told CBS News. U.S. satellites also detected two surface-to-air\nmissile launches, which happened shortly before the plane exploded, CBS News\nwas told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Federal officials were briefed on the intelligence Thursday,\nCBS News transportation Kris Van Cleave reports. A source who was in the\nbriefing said it appears missile components were found near the crash site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. officials are confident Iran shot down a Ukrainian jetliner in the hours after the Iranian missile attack on U.S. targets earlier this week, CBS News has learned. The Ukrainian&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}