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Civil airliners worse shot downs since 1970

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This information is an update old one from my library.

List of airliners worse incidents since 1970.
(military loss not counted as IED/bomb type civil airliners losses not counted).
From 1940 to 2014 were is a number with “small” losses in category.

#1. 1973 Sud Aviation Caravelle II on Air France Flight 1611 between Corsica and Nice. Fatalies 95.
Cause of the crash missile, misfired by the French army during a weapon test, shot down the aircraft.

#2. 1978.04.20 Boeing 707 Korean Air Lines (KAL902) Fatalies 2 Survivors 107.
Shot down by Su-15 in Loukhi, north of St Petersburg over Russia.

#3. 1978.09.02 Air Rhodesia Flight 825 between Kariba and Salisbury. Fatalies 70. Survivors 8.
Shot down by ZIPRA guerrillas using Strela 2.

#4. 1979.02.12. Air Rhodesia Flight 827 between Kariba and Salisbury. Fatalies 59.
Shot down by ZIPRA guerrillas using Strela 2.

#5. 1980.06.27 AI Flight 870 Aircraft take off from Bologna, Italy. Fatalies 81.
Shot down by missile during take off from Bologna, Italy. From the beginning talk of aircraft, but changed to missile by Italian criminal court.

#6. 1983.09.01 Boeing 747 Korean Air Lines (KAL007). Fatalies 269.
Shot down by Su-15 outside Sakhalin, Russia.

#7. 1988.07.03 Airbus A300 Iran Air Flight (IRF 655). Started from Bandar Abbas, Persian Gulf. Fatalies 290.
Shot down by a SM-2MR missile from USS Vincennes.

#8. 1993.09.21 Tu-134 from Transair Georgia flying from Sochi to Sukhumi-Babusheri airport. Fatalies 27.
Hit by surface-to-air-missile on approach of Sukhumi-Babusheri airport.

#9. 1993.09.22 Tu-154 from Transair Georgia flying from Tbilisi to Sukhumi airport. Fatalies 108. Survived 24.
Shot down while attempt to land at the Sukhumi airport.

#10. 1993.09.23 Unknown aircraft from Transair Georgia try to land at Sukhumi airport. Fatalies 1. Survived ?.
Aircraft struck by mortar or artillery fire from rebels.

#11. 1998.09.29 Lion Air Flight 602 operated by an An-24RV. Fatalies 55.
Crashed into the sea NW of Sri Lanka. Shot down by Tamil rebels.

#12. 2001.10.04 Tu-154 from Siberian Airlines Flight (SAF1812). Fatalies 78.
Crashed over Black Sea hit by S-200 surface-to-air missile shot from Crimea.

#13. 2014.07.14 Boeing 777 from Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (MAF17). Fatalies 298.
Shot down by Surface to Air Missile (US sources) over Eastern Ukraine. Further search of cause and type of missile ongoing.

Main source:
Seymor Hersh - KAL 007 target destroyed.
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Re: Civil airliners worse shot downs since 1970

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Several newspapers have fragments of it. Such CNN. But their info is fragmental and long from complete.

I have find more additions to my list. Interesting is also the high of the planes during shot downs.

Were is also other types of write-off with their special conclutions.

But it also terrible.
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