Wednesday, December 24, 2014

US denies IS shot down Jordanian plane

The US says Islamic State militants did not shoot down a Jordanian Air Force jet as the group is claiming.


IS is holding a captured Jordanian airman, and says it shot the plane down with a surface-to-air missile.


But our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks says US Central Command is calling the incident an "unfortunate crash".


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