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Reason
Matthew Petti

Should Airliners Be Forced To Fly Through War Zones?

Airlines have a very strong incentive not to risk their planes getting shot out of the sky. And it's not just a hypothetical fear.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union shot down a South Korean passenger jet and the United States shot down an Iranian passenger jet, both mistaken for hostile military aircraft, killing hundreds of people. During more recent conflicts, Russian-backed militias shot down a Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014 and the Iranian military shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet over Iran in 2020.

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