Talk:List of airliner shootdown incidents

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[edit] Alleged shootdowns?

Nice work here thus far. I was wondering, what about cases where a shootdown is alledged? I'm not talking conspiracy theories here, but cases where there is serious liklihood the aircraft was in fact shot down. To take two examples I have worked on, the 2007 Balad aircraft crash and the 2007 Mogadishu TransAVIAexport Airlines Il-76 crash were both, to my mind, almost certainly shootdowns. In the later, Belarussian officials even reacted openly as to an act of terrorism, and instigated a terrorist investigation. What sort of guidlines can we come up with? Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 21:33, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Sounds fine to me, since there are sources in the article to say both. I didn't include it or the DHL Baghdad incident because I could imagine someone taking issue with "cargo planes" being included in an "airliner" list so didn't want to go too far into it without getting other's reaction.

My only preferences, keeping WP:OWN in mind, is 1) that we only include items to which an article is linked and if none exists then sources MUST be provided in order to list something. I purposely didn't include Malév Flight 240 because it's missing sources. 2) Only incidents where civilian/commercial planes are brought down by AAA, SAM, or small arms fire should be included. An incident of a bombing, sabotage, or hijacking should be separate in my opinion. Anynobody 01:45, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Attempted shootdown?

Should this include the 2002 "narrow miss"[1] of an Arkia plane taking off in Kenya? That incident resulted in missile defense install on israeli civilian planes.. Skullers 02:42, 1 December 2007 (UTC)