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History of passenger planes shot down by missiles

History of passenger planes shot down by missiles

During the 1970s civil war in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), on Sept. 3, 1978, rebels of the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army shot down a plane going from Kariba to the capital, Salisbury (now Harare). Of the 56 people onboard, 18 survived the crash, but rebels killed 10 of them at the crash site.