Five infamous incidents of commercial airplanes that were shot down (original) (raw)

An Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed Wednesday in Kazakhstan, killing more than half of the 67 people on board, in an incident the White House suggested was caused by Russia.

The aircraft was en route from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to Grozny, in Russia’s southern region of Chechnya, when it diverted and attempted an emergency landing in the Kazakh city of Aktau. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Friday that there were “some early indications” that the plane “was brought down by Russian air defense systems.”