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The second Mi-8 was shot down by a Russian missile and the crew, Ivan Pepeliashko and Oleksiy Chyzh were the only survivors. Both were captured by Russian soldiers and later released after a prisoner swap. [276] [277] A third Mi-8 was lost in Kyiv Oblast. [278] [279] 15 March Mil Mi-8
[37] Putin later said that the aircraft was shot down by a Patriot missile system. [38] On 25 January, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a terrorism investigation into the incident [ 39 ] and released footage of the crash site, showing traces of blood and parts of human remains, [ 40 ] including a tattoo depicting a tryzub . [ 41 ]
[102] [103] Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down near a war zone in 1988. [104] The Wall Street Journal highlighted the risks of civil aviation near war zones, stating that accidental shooting down of civilian aircraft has become the leading cause of deaths in commercial aviation in recent years. [105]
The Ilyushin Il-76 was “performing a scheduled flight” to an airfield near the border when it was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile system, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The Russian defence ministry said six Russian crew members and three Russian soldiers had been on the Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane shot down near the Russian city of Belgorod near the ...
The air force said it shot down 87 cruise missiles and 27 drones of a total 158 aerial "targets" fired by Russia. Defence Minister Rustem Umerov said it was the "most massive air attack of this ...
On 3 July 1988 the aircraft was shot down by the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes which fired a RIM-66 Standard surface-to-air missile. The airplane was destroyed between Bandar Abbas and Dubai; all 290 passengers and crew died, including 66 children. USS Vincennes was in Iranian waters at the time of the attack.
The nearest Russian airport on the plane's flight path was closed on Wednesday morning. ... Some were reportedly shot down in closed air space over regions bordering Ukraine, including the Sea of ...