Malaysia Airlines Flight Could Be 4th Commercial Airplane Shot Down.

If confirmed, the Malaysia Airlines flight officials say was shot down in Ukraine will be the fourth commercial airliner to suffer such a fate.

If the Malaysia Airlines plane was indeed shot down, it would be the fourth commercial airliner to face such a fate.

The previous three were:

April 20, 1978: Korean Air Lines Flight 902, which diverted from its planned course on a flight from Paris to Seoul and strayed over the Soviet Union. After being fired upon by an interceptor aircraft, the crew made a forced landing at night on the surface of a frozen lake. Two of the 97 passengers were killed by the hostile fire.
Sept. 1, 1983: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shot down by at least one Soviet air-to-air missile after the 747 had strayed into Soviet airspace. All 240 passengers and 29 crew were killed.
July 3, 1988: Iran Air Flight 655 Aircraft was shot down by a surface-to-air missile from the American naval vessel U.S.S. Vincennes. All 16 crew and 274 passengers were killed.

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