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U.S. officials confident Iran shot down passenger jet
U.S. officials are confident Ukrainian Flight 752 was shot down by Iran, CBS News' Kris Van Cleave reports.
U.S. intelligence picked up signals of the radar being turned on and satellite detected infrared blips of two missile launches, probably SA-15s, followed shortly by another infrared blip of an explosion.
The current thinking is the plane was mistakenly targeted. It took off hours after Iran launched a missile attack against military bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops, while the world waited to see if the U.S. would respond militarily, Van Cleave reports.
The Ukrainian International Airlines plane crashed Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board.
BY SARAH LYNCH BALDWIN