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On 22 November 2003, shortly after takeoff from Baghdad, Iraq, an Airbus A300B2-200F cargo plane, registered OO-DLL and owned by the Belgian division of European Air Transport (doing business as DHL Express), was struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile while on a scheduled flight to Muharraq, Bahrain. [1]
On 6 November 1987, an Air Malawi Shorts Skyvan (registered 7Q-YMB) was shot down while on a domestic flight from Blantyre, Malawi to Lilongwe. The flight plan took it over Mozambique where the Mozambican Civil War was in progress. The aircraft was shot down near the Mozambican town of Ulongwe. The eight passengers and two crew on board died. [76]
Flight path of Flight 7216. The flight took off at 9:34 AM local time from Juan Santamaría International Airport to La Aurora International Airport to deliver cargo.. However, while flying over the Costa Rican town of Mueller San Carlos (or the Parque Nacional Juan Castro Blanco, it is unclear), the pilot declared an emergency due to hydraulic problems, and returned to the terminal, after ...
Transair Georgia Crash (21 September) - Shot down on approach at Sukhumi Babushara Airport. All 22 passengers and 5 crew died. Orbi Georgian Airways Crash (22 September) – Shot down as it was trying to land at Sukhumi. 108 people died. Transair Georgia Crash (23 September) - Shot at during boarding. 1 crew member died.
February 21 – Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114, a Boeing 727, strays off course and was shot down by Israeli jets in the Sinai war zone, killing 108 of 113 people on board. February 24 – Aeroflot Flight 630 , an Ilyushin Il-18, crashed 25 miles (40 km) from Ura-Tube, Tajikistan, due to loss of control as a result of pilot error, killing all ...
Title again : 2003_Baghdad_DHL_attempted_shootdown_incident is extremely confusing. Is the 'incident' DHL-attempted (by DHL)? Was a missile fired down from a DHL plane? I would suggest 2003_Baghdad_missile_attack_on_DHL_plane . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.95.200.104 17:39, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.An aircraft shootdown occurs when an aircraft is struck by a projectile launched or fired from another aircraft or from the ground (anti-aircraft warfare) which causes the targeted aircraft to lose its ability to continue flying normally, and then subsequently crashing into land or sea, often ...
This category lists civilian airliners which were shot down. Airliners can be shot down deliberately by terrorists (e.g. Transair Georgian Airline shootdowns), attacked due to misidentification as enemy warplanes (e.g. Iran Air Flight 655), or they can stray into hostile airspace as a result of navigational errors (e.g. Korean Air Flight 007