Civilian passenger aircraft have been shot down, intentionally or otherwise, before. Most of the most serious incidents have involved some form of mistaken identity.
. Soviet fighter pilots scrambled to intercept the jet say they fired warning shots of tracer bullets to signal to the pilots, though they made no attempt to contact it by radio.
Though the fighter pilots doubted that it was a military plane once they’d seen it up close they were ordered to shoot it down with air-to-air missiles, and did.The incident worsened Cold War relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, already tense following the 1980 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.U.S. lied about shooting down Iran Air Flight 655, led to tense relations between the two countries that were barely short of war.
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