The downing of Malaysia Air Lines flight 17 over separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine bears some striking resemblances to a similarly shocking downing of another civilian passenger jet 30 years ago.
On Sept. 1, 1983, a Korean Air Lines jet, KAL 007, on a flight from New York to Seoul, strayed from its assigned flight path and was shot down by a Soviet fighter jet over the sea of Japan. Two hundred eighty-nine passengers and crew were killed; the bodies were never recovered. The death toll from the Malaysian Air Line shoot-down was 298. The death tolls were nearly equal in numbers and …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
