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Re:Air missile accident emerges as probable cause of Azerbai... by eastbound on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @06:47PM (#42512034)
Yes, who shoots down entire civilian aircrafts?

Itavia 870 comes to mind: In the 80ies, a fighter jet was being smuggled to Gaddafi by hiding under a civilian aircraft, and the speculation is that France shot the convoy, killing 81. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itavia_Flight_870

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Re:Air missile accident emerges as probable cause of Azerbai... by wat10000 on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @06:59PM (#42512079)
It’s sadly somewhat common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_inc...

Russia/USSR does seem overrepresented here.

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Re:Air missile accident emerges as probable cause of Azerbai... by gpderetta on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @09:54PM (#42512820)
Sure, but who's most likely to have shot down this plane over Russian territory?
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Re:Air missile accident emerges as probable cause of Azerbai... by yakshaving_jgt on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @10:06PM (#42512855)
The russians.
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Re:Air missile accident emerges as probable cause of Azerbai... by lxgr on Thursday December 26, 2024 @09:47PM (#42519551)
> [...] a fighter jet was being smuggled to Gaddafi by hiding under a civilian aircraft [...]

Do you have any sources for that? The article you link does not seem to mention that theory.

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Re:Air missile accident emerges as probable cause of Azerbai... by eastbound on Friday December 27, 2024 @10:26AM (#42522859)
That’s what I understood from a documentary, I think it was from Al Jeezira, a civilian was pointing that there was a double radar echo from the plane and it meant there were probably two planes on top of each other.

Sure the article mention a theory that Gaddafi was in a fighter jet, and the civilian plane was a collateral damage from a dogfight, but given the lack of information in the public space, both theories still have a lot of common points.

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Re:Air missile accident emerges as probable cause of Azerbai... by lxgr on Friday December 27, 2024 @10:28AM (#42522879)
Yeah, definitely seems like a strange incident, but as far as I can tell there isn't any widely accepted theory for what exactly happened.
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