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Old 19th May 2019, 16:13
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Originally Posted by Sultan Ismail
I am aware of 3 aircraft shot down in peacetime, Korean 007, Iranian 655 and Malaysian 17.
An earlier poster has stated that just 2 aggresors were involved.
I deduce from that Malaysian 17 was shot down by the Russians.
Wikipedia disagrees, depending on your definition of 'peacetime', with 30 examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...down_incidents

Astonishingly the same aircraft was shot down in 1938 then again in 1940.
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