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by okket 3556 days ago
You need state sponsored military equipment to shoot down a 10km high flying airplane. You can't do this with your homebuilt rocket launcher.

Up to this incident nobody was thinking that a state could be reckless enough to target civilian planes. Or lend their military equipment to people reckless enough. This has changed since then.

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old news:

Iran Air was shot down by US Navy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655