List of downed aircraft in civil aviation
The list of downed aircraft in civil aviation includes civil aircraft that were shot at from the ground or from the air that crashed or were forced to make an emergency landing .
Resolved cases
In the following aircraft accidents, it is considered certain that the aircraft was shot down.
date | Flight or registration number | death sacrificial |
over- living |
Summary of the event |
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December 18, 1939 | M-CABA | 10 | no | On December 18, 1939, a Junkers Ju 52 / 3m with the aircraft registration M-CABA was shot down by the British air defense south of Gibraltar and crashed into the Mediterranean , killing the three crew members and seven passengers. |
June 14, 1940 | see "Kaleva" from Finnish Aero O / Y | 9 | no | Shot down of a Finnish Ju 52 / 3m ge by Soviet combat aircraft over the Gulf of Finland. |
March 3, 1942 | KNILM (PK-AFV) |
4th | 5 | A Douglas DC-3 of the Dutch company KNILM was shot down by Japanese aircraft over Australia. |
June 1, 1943 | BOAC flight 777 (G-AGBB) | 17th | no | A British Douglas DC-3 passenger aircraft , shot down by German airmen over the Bay of Biscay for reasons that are still unclear. All four crew members and thirteen passengers died, including film star Leslie Howard and entrepreneur Wilfrid Israel . |
September 27, 1944 | Lufthansa flight Stuttgart-Barcelona (D-AMHL) | 9 | no | A German passenger aircraft of the type Focke-Wulf Fw 200D-2 was shot down by a British fighter aircraft stationed near Dijon. As a result, Lufthansa's last scheduled connection to Spain was discontinued. |
July 27, 1955 | El Al Flight 402 | 58 | no | Due to a navigation error, a Lockheed Constellation of El Al got into Bulgarian airspace and was shot down by two Bulgarian MiG-15s . |
February 21, 1973 | Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 | 108 | 5 | Due to a navigation error came a Boeing 727 of Libyan Arab Airlines in the airspace of the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula and was by two F-4 Phantom II shot down by the Israeli air force. |
April 20, 1978 | Korean Air Lines Flight 902 | 2 | 107 | Due to a navigation error came a Boeing 707 of Korean Airlines in Soviet territory and was two Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 intercepted and fired upon. Despite severe damage, the Korean pilots managed to make an emergency landing on the frozen Korpijarwisee . |
3rd September 1978 | Air Rhodesia Flight 825 | 38 | 8th | A Vickers Viscount from Air Rhodesia was shot down with a surface-to-air missile by the rebel group Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA). After the crash, 10 of the 18 survivors were shot by the rebels. |
2nd February 1979 | Air Rhodesia Flight 827 | 59 | no | Another Vickers Viscount from Air Rhodesia was shot down by the rebel group Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) with a surface-to-air missile. |
September 1, 1983 | Korean Air Lines flight 007 | 269 | no | Due to a navigation error crossed a Boeing 747 of Korean Air Lines Soviet airspace. It was classified as a military target and was shot down by Soviet fighters in international airspace. |
February 24, 1985 | Shot down of the Polar 3 from the Alfred Wegener Institute | 3 | no | The German research aircraft of the Alfred Wegener Institute of the type Dornier Do 228 was shot down by armed forces of the Democratic Arab Republic of the Sahara using a surface-to-air missile. |
October 14, 1987 | Zimex Aviation , HB-ILF | 6th | no | The Lockheed L-100 Hercules transport aircraft flew on behalf of the ICRC in the civil war area of Angola. Two other people died on the ground. |
November 6, 1987 | Air Malawi , 7Q-YMB | 10 | no | A Short Skyvan of Air Malawi was near the town Ulongwe in Mozambique shot down. |
3rd July 1988 | Iran Air Flight 655 | 290 | no | Shooting down of a Airbus A300B2-203 of Iran Air on the flight from Bandar Abbas to Dubai by a surface to air missile from the US warship USS Vincennes (CG-49) of which was in Iranian territorial waters. |
June 28, 1989 | Somali Airlines Flight 41 | 30th | no | Shortly after the start in Hargeisa a was Fokker F-27 of the Somali Airlines fired from Rebel. The machine was on a scheduled flight to Mogadishu . |
January 28, 1992 | The Mil-Mi-8 passenger helicopter was shot down near Shusha in 1992 | 44 | no | Downing of the Azal Azerbaijan Airlines Mil-Mi-8 passenger helicopter in connection with the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh |
September 21, 1993 | Transair Georgia Airlines Tu-134 | 27 | no | Abkhaz separatists shot down a Georgian passenger plane using a surface-to-air missile fired from a patrol boat |
September 22, 1993 | Transair Georgia Airlines Tu-154 | 108 | 24 | Abkhazian separatists shot down a Georgian passenger plane using a surface-to-air missile |
April 6, 1994 | The presidential plane was shot down in Rwanda on April 6, 1994 | 12 | no | The Rwandan government plane was shot down during its approach to Kigali with President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira on board. The shooting is considered to be the initial spark for the genocide in Rwanda . |
February 24, 1996 | Cessna Skymaster | 4th | no | Two American aircraft (N2456S and N5485S) belonging to the Brothers to the Rescue organization were shot down by Cuban MiG-23s and MiG-29s |
May 15, 1997 | Flight accident at Gəncə | 6th | no | Azerbaijani soldiers returning from a target practice shot machine guns at road signs for entertainment. Missiles hit a passing Yakovlev Jak-40 of Azerbaijan Airlines , which was on a training flight. The Jak-40 crashed as a result of the fire. |
October 10, 1998 | Boeing 727 of the Lignes Aériennes Congolaises | 41 | no | A Boeing 727 of the Lignes Aériennes Congolaises was shot down by Congolese rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a surface-to-air missile |
April 20, 2001 | Cessna 185 , OB-1408, Peru , near the Brazilian border | 2 | 3 | A pilot and a family of four were in the private plane. The CIA and the Peruvian Air Force (FAP) worked together to prevent drug smuggling by air ("Air Bridge Denial Program"). Officers aboard the CIA plane debated whether or not the flight was carrying drugs and suggested that the plane be forced to land in Iquitos for verification . However, the radio calls from the FAP were not heard by the crew. However, when the crew discovered the FAP's Dragonfly fighter aircraft, they contacted the Iquito control tower to inquire about what the Air Force was asking. At that moment, however, the crew of the Dragonfly began to fire at the Cessna 185. The CIA officers tried in vain to stop the fighter aircraft in time. 2001 Peru shootdown (English). |
October 4, 2001 | Sibir flight 1812 | 78 | no | During an exercise by the Ukrainian Navy, a target drone was fired at with two surface-to-air missiles (double shot). After the target drone was destroyed by the first missile, the second missile found a new target independently and hit the Russian Tupolev Tu-154 at a distance of 250 km. |
November 22, 2003 |
Shelling of an Airbus A300 of European Air Transport (OO-DLL) |
no | 3 | Shortly after taking off from Baghdad Airport in Iraq , an Airbus A300 belonging to European Air Transport was shot at by terrorists with an anti-aircraft missile . The rocket hit the left wing, resulting in a total failure of the machine's hydraulic control systems. In a maneuver that was previously unique in civil aviation, the crew managed to return to the airport and perform an emergency landing there. |
March 23, 2007 | An Ilyushin Il-76 shot down near Mogadishu | 11 | no | An Ilyushin Il-76 of the Belarusian Transaviaexport Airlines was hit by a surface-to-air missile after taking off from Mogadishu and crashed. |
17th July 2014 | Malaysia Airlines flight Jan. | 298 | no | A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was shot down by a Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile near the eastern Ukrainian city of Tores during the war in Ukraine since 2014 . |
January 8, 2020 | Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 | 176 | no | A Boeing 737 operated by Ukraine International Airlines was accidentally shot down by two Iranian anti-aircraft missiles shortly after take-off at Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport . |
Suspected cases
In the following cases there are indications or theories that the aircraft was shot down.
date | flight | death sacrificial |
over- living |
Summary of the event |
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December 21, 1948 | ČSA flight 584 | 24 | no | Douglas DC-3 near Pilos, Greece; but possibly controlled flight into terrain . |
September 18, 1961 | Charter flight of the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld | 16 | no | A UN- chartered Douglas DC-6 of Transair Sweden crashed in the border area between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Northern Rhodesia . The UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld was on board . It could not be determined whether the crash was caused by a navigation error, a technical defect or a shooting down. |
June 30, 1962 | Aeroflot flight 902 | 84 | no | A Tupolev Tu-104 of Aeroflot crashes on board by an unknown emergency. According to unofficial reports, the plane was accidentally hit by a missile. |
3rd September 1962 | Aeroflot flight 03 | 86 | no | A Tupolev Tu-104 of Aeroflot crashes in the after starting Khabarovsk from. According to unofficial information, the plane could also have been hit by a missile. |
September 11, 1968 | Air France flight 1611 | 95 | no | A Sud Aviation Caravelle of Air France crashed into the Mediterranean after the crew had reported a fire in the cabin. According to a TV documentary from 2011, the machine was said to have been brought down by a non-armed standard missile during a French military exercise. |
January 26, 1972 | Jugoslovensky Aerotransport Flight 367 | 27 | 1 | A Douglas DC-9 of Jugoslovenski Aerotransport , flying from Stockholm via Copenhagen to Zagreb and Belgrade, crashed over the village of Srbská Kamenice in Czechoslovakia near the border with the GDR. Only the stewardess Vesna Vulović survived the crash. The course of the accident and the official statement by the Czechoslovak authorities that the plane crashed from a great height are being questioned by some aviation journalists today. |
September 30, 1975 | Malév flight 240 | 60 | no | On September 30, 1975, a Tu-154 of Malév crashed on the flight from Budapest to Beirut with 50 passengers and 10 crew members shortly before landing at around 3 a.m. in the Mediterranean Sea . It is assumed that the aircraft was shot down by the Israeli or Syrian military as a result of a PLO delegation that was supposedly on board the aircraft, or that an unknown cargo was carried on board, as only about a third of the aircraft were passengers was occupied. |
June 27, 1980 | Itavia flight 870 | 81 | no | An Italian court found the members in 2011 damages to and thus indirectly confirmed the theory that the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 of Itavia in a dogfight between fighters of the NATO and Libya fell, the machine was hit by an errant missile. This contradicts the final report of the chief accident investigator. Accordingly, the machine was not brought down by a rocket, but by an explosive device in the rear on-board toilet. |
November 8, 1983 | TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462 | 130 | no | After starting in Lubango a crashed Boeing 737-200 of TAAG Angola Airlines from. According to the Angolan government, the cause of the crash was a technical defect. UNITA rebels said they shot the machine down with rockets. |
September 29, 1998 | Lionair Flight 602 | 56 | no | The Antonov An-24 machine probably crashed as a result of being shot down by Tamil rebels. Shiwasubramaniam Thillaraj is considered responsible. The machine flew over Iranatheevu Island about 10 minutes after taking off from Palali and then disappeared from radar screens. The wreck was discovered in 2012 and has been investigated since 2013. |
January 9, 2007 | Aeriantur-M Airlines charter flight (ER-26068) |
34 | 1 | An Antonov An-26 of the Moldovan Aeriantur-M Airlines launched in Adana crashed while approaching Balad Air Base in Iraq . An Iraqi underground organization and an eyewitness said the machine was shot down. |
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Accident report Ju 52 M-CABA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 21, 2016.
- ↑ Thomas C. Van Hare: The Kaleva Shootdown. In: Historic Wings "Daily Stories". June 14, 2013, accessed December 20, 2014 .
- ^ A b Lara Gruben: Airplanes shot down: passenger planes as targets. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 18, 2014, accessed December 20, 2014 .
- ↑ accident report G-AGBB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 7 August 2016th
- ^ The mystery of Flight 777: Mistaken identity or deadly mistake? (No longer available online.) In: Bristol Post . May 31, 2010, archived from the original on December 20, 2014 ; Retrieved December 20, 2014 .
- ^ Aviation Safety Network: ASN Aircraft accident Focke-Wulf Fw 200D-2 D-AMHL Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .
- ^ Accident report A300B4-203F, OO-DLL , Aviation Safety Network , accessed on March 24, 2019.
- ↑ accident report OK WDN , Aviation Safety Network , accessed on 16 July 2016th
- ↑ http://www.airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=513
- ↑ accident report CCCP-42370 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 7 August 2016th
- ↑ http://www.airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=335
- ^ TV documentary reveals that military missile did kill 95 people. (No longer available online.) In: The Riviera Times . May 12, 2011, archived from the original on September 4, 2013 ; Retrieved December 20, 2014 .
- ↑ Fallen from the sky - the miracle of Vesna Vulović , report on tagesschau.de, January 8, 2009 ( Memento of February 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Accident report HA-LCI , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on July 16, 2016.
- ^ A. Frank Taylor: A case history involving wreckage analysis: Lessons from the Ustica Investigation (PDF; 1.28 MB, 23 pages), Aviation Safety Network
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report of the downing of November 8, 1983 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- ↑ Mysterious disappearance of Lion Air 602 unearthed. (No longer available online.) Ministry of Defense and Urban Development Sri Lanka, April 19, 2012, archived from the original on December 23, 2014 ; Retrieved December 20, 2014 .
- ↑ Sri Lanka Navy salvage wreckage of Lion Air ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 5th June 2013
- ^ Accident report ER-26068 , Aviation Safety Network , accessed on July 16, 2016.
- ^ Moldovan plane that crashed in Iraq was downed - eyewitness January 12, 2007