[etherael]

Why is this being downvoted? Are people really so naive as to not be aware of this?

[coldpie]

Arguments and supporting evidence is much more highly regarded than pithy sarcasm with nothing to back it up.

[raverbashing]

At the day and age of google, wikipedia, it should be obvious where to look for those, which are public and very widely known events.

I can think of three with no effort: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007

[knowaveragejoe]

Of course, none of these fit the profile of this incident and all of them occurred before 1990, so, hard to draw a comparison here.

[jfoster]

A couple of (fairly old) North Korean examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_YS-11_hijackin...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_858