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Yes, who shoots down entire civilian aircrafts? Itavia 870 comes to mind: In the 80ies, a fighter jet was being smuggled to Gaddafi by hiding under a civilian
by eastbound 2y ago
Yes, who shoots down entire civilian aircrafts?
Itavia 870 comes to mind: In the 80ies, a fighter jet was being smuggled to Gaddafi by hiding under a civilian aircraft, and the speculation is that France shot the convoy, killing 81. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itavia_Flight_870 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itavia_Flight_870
- wat10000 2y agoIt’s sadly somewhat common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_inc... Russia/USSR does seem overrepresented here.
- gpderetta 2y agoSure, but who's most likely to have shot down this plane over Russian territory?
- yakshaving_jgt 2y agoThe russians.
- lxgr 2y ago> [...] a fighter jet was being smuggled to Gaddafi by hiding under a civilian aircraft [...] Do you have any sources for that? The article you link does not seem to mention that theory.
- eastbound 2y agoThat’s what I understood from a documentary, I think it was from Al Jeezira, a civilian was pointing that there was a double radar echo from the plane and it meant there were probably two planes on top of each other. Sure the article mention a theory that Gaddafi was in a fighter jet, and the civilian plane was a collateral damage from a dogfight, but given the lack of information in the public space, both theories still have a lot of common points.
- lxgr 2y agoYeah, definitely seems like a strange incident, but as far as I can tell there isn't any widely accepted theory for what exactly happened.