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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 ...
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 – A Boeing 747-230B which was shot down over the Sea Of Japan by the Soviet Air Forces due to being misidentified as spies. All 269 people on board died. Korean Air Lines Flight 902 – A Boeing 707-321B which was shot down near Murmansk, Russia by the Soviet Air Forces after being diverted off course due to ...
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KE007/KAL007) [note 2] was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska.On September 1, 1983, the flight was shot down by a Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 interceptor aircraft.
Azerbaijan’s president said Russia shot down a passenger airliner, accusing Moscow of trying to cover up the issue for days. Ilham Aliyev said the plane had been damaged due to “unintentional ...
A Kremlin statement did not say Russia had shot down the plane, only noting a criminal case had been opened. "Our plane was shot down by accident," Aliyev said on state television on Sunday ...
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev accused Russia of executing an "absurd" cover-up after its air defenses allegedly "shot down" a passenger plane last week. Russian President Vladimir Putin ...
The Atlantique plane was shot down by an IAF MiG-21 of the 45th Indian Air Force Squadron using a R-60 infrared homing missile. 27 February 2019 – India confirmed that it lost one MiG-21 from the 51st fighter squadron in an air skirmish with the Pakistan Air Force (PAF). [219] [220]
A Russian military Ilyushin Il-76 transport plane has crashed near Belgorod, close to the border with Ukraine, while carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, Russian authorities said Wednesday.