Today it’s exactly 20 years ago the Russian airforce downed a South Korean airliner. All 269 passengers were killed.
I remember when the news broke in Europe and (of course) the accusations forth and back. The Russians claimed that the plane was spying for the American military. The Americans suggested that the Russians were too trigger-happy.
The truth is always somewhere in-between: apparantly the Korean crew never noticed the deviation of their plane while the Russians weren’t able to identify the plane as a civilian aircraft.