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Regrettably, passenger planes have been shot down. Such events are unfortunately not relegated to the confines of aviation history because as recently as 2020, civilian planes have been shot down in either acts of aggression or by pure accident. Perhaps one of the more peculiar instances of a shootdown event came in 1978. A passenger plane belonging to Korean Airlines was intercepted and fired upon by the Soviet Union. Flying as flight 902, the Boeing 707 left Paris for a long flight to Seoul with 109 occupants on board. Their route that day should have kept them well away from the Soviet Union but still the USSR saw it was necessary to intervene, but why?
This incident is not to be confused with Korean Airlines flight 007 which was also shot down by the Soviet Union in 1983 killing 269 people. Korean Airlines Flight 902 was an incident which not only demonstrated a major navigational error but also demonstrated a quirk of not the plane but the planet as a whole.

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