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Wow, the Russians shot down another plane. I never heard of KAL007 and thought MH17 was the first time this happened. Did any other nation states ever shoot dow

by berkes 2y ago

Wow, the Russians shot down another plane. I never heard of KAL007 and thought MH17 was the first time this happened. Did any other nation states ever shoot down passenger airplanes?

arprocter 2y ago
Full list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_inc...
yborg 2y ago
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 Siberia Airlines Flight 1812
dboreham 2y ago
For completeness: the US navy shot down an Iranian airliner.
- astro-throw 2y ago
  The "full list" posted earlier has that one on it.
- wkat4242 2y ago
  And Iran shot down a Ukrainian plane. But yeah it's not unique. In this case it's really tough though because the Soviets knew it was a civilian airliner running with full lights.