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Yeah the Russians also used "trawlers" to hide their recovery operations of KAL007 to hide their mass murder.

Trawler does not mean unintentional or not state related.

Wow, the Russians shot down another plane. I never heard of KAL007 and thought MH17 was the first time this happened. Did any other nation states ever shoot down passenger airplanes?

Full list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_inc...

Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752

Siberia Airlines Flight 1812

For completeness: the US navy shot down an Iranian airliner.

The "full list" posted earlier has that one on it.

And Iran shot down a Ukrainian plane.

But yeah it's not unique. In this case it's really tough though because the Soviets knew it was a civilian airliner running with full lights.

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