Malaysia Flight is 9th Commercial Aircraft in 74 Years Shot Down Around Russia

Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, shot out of the sky Thursday by a surface-to-air missile over eastern Ukraine, joins a growing list of commercial planes carrying civilian passengers downed by military forces around Russia's western border.

It's also the second such incident in Ukraine, which shot down a Siberian Airlines plane in 2001 over the Black Sea, killing 78. Ukraine admitted to mistakenly firing an S-200 missile, which may also have been involved in downing the Malaysian airliner.

Since 1940, there have been at least 22 incidents of commercial airliners shot down around the world, resulting in more than 1,250 casualties. (That tally doesn't include the 295 passengers and crew killed aboard the Malaysian flight.) Read more...

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Malaysia Flight is 9th Commercial Aircraft in 74 Years Shot Down Around Russia