Commercial aircraft shot down by missiles: history repeats itself

In this installment we review the unfortunate history of several commercial planes and flights that have been shot down by missiles by mistake.ónot intentionally.

History repeats itself and again an avióA commercial was shot down by a missile intended for military conflicts and other interests, generating innocent victimsáIt's a new seizureón in the industry transport toéreo másafest in the world.

The accidents toéprisoners they have always allowed the aviationón learn from these unfortunate events and improve, but conflicts bélics once again generate the debate on the responsibility of the operationón during times of conflict.

Commercial aircraft shot down by missiles

The website aviation-safety.net collects on its portal the máThere is extensive data on accidents in the world and in this we have been able to find several downed commercial airplanes, the idea in this publicationón is to know them in a historical wayórich and not about conflicts or differences políethics that generated them.

Sayún Aviation Safety a total of 678 accidents or incidents have occurred in history between earth events – air and air – air between military aircraft, minor and commercial, so we will show in this publicationón only a few and those that I have considered márepresentative.

Ukraine International Airlines 752

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AndáI don't declareó the 11 of January of 2020 than the grandfatherón was shot down by a surface-to-air missile due to a «human error». Hours before the demolition, Andán habíattacked US bases in Iraq. The missile was probably a 9K331 Tor-M1 missile, fired from a Tor missile system located at an ISIL Revolutionary Guard Corps baseámica (IRGC).

Malaysia Airlines 17

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A detonated warheadó outside and above the left side of the cockpit of flight MH17. It was a 9N314M warhead carried on the 9M38 missile series installed on the Buk surface-to-air missile system..

Sibir Airlines 1812

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During the international flight an altitude of 11,100 m, the grandfatherón was hit by the 5B14Sh warhead of a 5B28 missile from an S-200B surface-to-air missile system, launched from a positionón near the city of Feodosia in the peníCrimean island.

Congolese Air Lines

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the grandfatherón was shot down by rebel forces with a 9K32 Strela-2 surface-to-air missile (spaghettién known as SA-7) about three minutes laterés to leave Kindu for Kinshasa. The Boeing crashedó against the dense jungle while the captainán was trying to make an emergency landing.

Korean Air Lines 007

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the grandfatherón was hit by one or two missiles fired by a USSR Sukhoi Su-15, what resultedó into holes in the fuselage with a átotal area of ​​the order of 1.75 square feet (0.16 m2). As a result of the dayñor caused by the missile, the grandfatheróI went downó initially and the accelerationón vertical increaseó approximately 1.2 g for three to five seconds.

Iran Air 655

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The missiles were fired by the US Navy cruiser USS Vincennes. UU. I was operating in the áarea along with the frigates USS Elmer Montgommery and USS John H. Sides. Debían protect other ships in the área.
Approximately when it took offó the airbus, The radar aboard the USS Vincennes capturedó a brief answer like this 2 del IFF, which led to the identificationón erróne of the Airbus as an avión F-14 hostel.

Aeroflot 902

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It was establishedó than the grandfatherón habíhas been hit by a surface-to-air missile that penetratedó in the fuselage.
The missile was fired during a defense exerciseéarea in the ásale de Magansk. Se desvió afterés to pass through a storm and headedó towards the Tu-104.