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Korean Air Lines Flight 902 was scheduled flight from Paris, France bound for Seoul, South Korea with a stopover at Anchorage, Alaska operated by a civilian Boeing 707 airliner (registered HL7429) that was shot down by Soviet Air Force Sukhoi Su-15 fighters on 20 April 1978 near Murmansk, Soviet Union after it violated Soviet airspace and ...
The Shanghai Y-10 or Yun-10 (Chinese: 运-10; lit. 'Transporter-10') is a four engined narrow-body jet airliner developed in the 1970s by the Shanghai Aircraft Research Institute. The plane used Boeing's 707-320C as reference, designed according to Federal Aviation Regulation (Part 25, 1970 edition).
This category lists confirmed incidents in which civil airliners have been shot down by military combat aircraft, typically by fighters.Incidents are listed regardless of cause or intent (i.e., factors such as alleged misidentification of the target or navigational errors are immaterial).
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
#10. Southwest Airlines - Safety score: 4.52. Not only did Southwest Airlines have the lowest score in WalletHub's safety reporting on U.S. airlines, but as of July 2024, the FAA placed the ...
28 July – An Iraqi military Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashes in a sandstorm. All five crew-members are killed. [10]17 April – A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter, 95–26648, belonging to the 3-158th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade crashes on infill about 12 miles (19 km) north of Tikrit while executing an 8 ship air assault at night. 1 U.S. service member killed and 3 crew ...
BAKU, Azerbaijan − Russian air defenses downed an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people, four sources with knowledge of the preliminary findings of Azerbaijan's ...