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On 29 December, President Aliyev said that Russia had accidentally shot down the plane, accused Russia of attempting to obfuscate and "hush up" the crash, and demanded a full admission of guilt, punishment for those responsible, and compensation for the victims and their families. [5]
This incident is believed to be the first commercial passenger plane attacked by hostile forces. [1] On 24 August 1938 – during the Second Sino-Japanese War – the Kweilin, a DC-2 jointly operated by China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) and Pan American World Airways, carrying 18 passengers and crew, was forced down by Japanese aircraft in Chinese territory just north of Hong Kong. 15 ...
A Russian Pantsir-S air defence system, which preliminary investigations show may have shot down the aircraft (Getty/iStock) Fatal flightpath: the course of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 on 25 ...
Call sign U106 was shot down by Russian forces near Marinka. [427] 17 July Bayraktar TB2: Call sign T 263 was shot down by Russian Forces in Kherson Oblast, near Heroiskoye. [428] 30 August UJ-22 Airborne: Downed by a Russian Mi-28N. [429] 22 December UJ-25 Skyline: Remains found in Russia. Crashed into the roof of a house. [430] Total: 12
Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243 came down on Wednesday near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting from an area of southern Russia in which Moscow has used air defense systems against ...
Russia stated that the plane was shot down by Ukraine while it was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) captured during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as six crew members and three guards, and that the prisoners of war were to be exchanged in a swap.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed with a Russian surface-to-air missile, killing all 298 people aboard, as it flew over the area in eastern Ukraine controlled by Moscow-backed separatists in ...
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 [2] was a commercial flight shot down by the Ukrainian Air Force over the Black Sea on 4 October 2001, en route from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Novosibirsk, Russia. The aircraft, a Soviet -made Tupolev Tu-154 , carried 66 passengers and 12 crew members.