Accidents and Incidents/Shot Down
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Aviation Incidents: Aircraft Shot Down
Many commercial flights have been shot down. Several of these incidents are indexed below:-
- 1983: Korean Air Lines Flight 007
Shot down by a Soviet Air Force Sukhoi Su-15TM. - 1988: Iran Air Flight 655
Shot down by the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes . - 2014: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Shot down near Donetsk in Ukraine.
The following articles on Wikipedia list a horrifying number of aircraft which have been shot down.
- List of aircraft shootdowns
This list focusses on aircraft shot down during wars since World War II but excluding the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War. At the end of the article is a short list of civilian aircraft shot down during conficts. - List of airliner shootdown incidents
This list begins in the 1930s and indexes Wikipedia articles related to each incident involving commercial or passenger aircraft.