History of passenger planes shot down by missiles

A Malaysia Airlines plane was blown up over Eastern Ukraine by a sophisticated missilebelieved to be fired by pro-Russia rebels, killing all 298 people on board.The Boeing 777 was on a scheduled flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur and it had not made a distress call. .But there is a long history of passenger planes being attacked by militaries from Soviet era A Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 flying from Tripoli to Cairo got lost and flew over the Sinai peninsula, which had been under Israeli control since the Six-Day War in 1967. On February 21, 1973,Two Israeli warplanes intercepted the Libyan aircraft, and gave signals to land and even fired wrning shots when it refused to land, the Israelis shot it down, killing 108 of the 113 people on board.David Elazar, the chief of staff of the Israeli armed forcesordered the shoot-down. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan called the event an "error of judgment" and the Israeli government compensated the families of victims. Libyan dictator Muammer Gaddafi condemned the attack as "a criminal act" while the Soviets called it a "monstrous new crime."