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TRAGIC MISTAKES

The accident with Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 has generated world shock, especially after Iran's government has assumed that its anti aircraft defense system has downed the Boeing 737-800 that took off from Tehran, killing all 173 people on board, due to a human error. Once again, a tragedy has reminded the authorities the need to implement stricter protocols to ensure safety of civil aircrafts flying over areas in dispute or under conflict. This was not the first case of a civil aircraft being destroyed by mistake or from deliberate action by military forces. In the last five decades alone, at least eight cases of allegedly non-intentional shooting down of large-sized commercial aircrafts have occurred. Remember some of the previous cases.

JULY 17, 2014

>>> Victims: 298

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was on

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