The Associated Press quietly scrapped a headline after tying the United States to the deaths of innocent civilians aboard a passenger flight that was shot down by Iran.

The original headline was: “An Iranian general dies in U.S. attack, and innocents suffer.” The headline outraged many for connecting the U.S. to the deaths of the passengers, rather than the Iranian regime whose anti-aircraft missiles blew up the flight, carrying mostly Ukrainian and Canadian passengers to Kyiv, on Wednesday morning.