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		rbanffy on Dec 2, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user int... It was a lack of imagination. They didn't anticipate that case and probably just selected the contact IDs randomly. A bad RNG and an unlucky day is all it takes.

angiosperm on Dec 3, 2023 [–]

Sequential numbering would have been much less confusing to operators.

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