Airliner shootdown
Facts from the Community
From the Death and violence base
Attacks of this form:
- EC-121 shootdown incident
- DHL shootdown incident in Baghdad
- Transair Georgian Airline Shootdowns
- Siberia Airlines Flight 1812
- Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114
- BOAC Flight 777
- 2007 Mogadishu TransAVIAexport Airlines Il-76 crash
- Korean Air Flight 007
- El Al Flight 402
- Air Rhodesia Flight 825
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