Passenger Planes Shot Down

Black Box Down

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Aviation, Leisure

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🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Commercial passenger jets full of civilians were shot down by militaries around the world in three different instances. Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down on August 31, 1983 on its way to Seoul. Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down on its short flight to Dubai on July 3, 1988. Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down on July 17, 2014. Find out who shot these planes down and why in this episode of Black Box Down. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BlackBoxDownPod. https://twitter.com/blackboxdownpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	August 31, 1983. A Korean airline 747 disappears during a routine flight between the United
0:08.2	States and South Korea, killing 269 people on board. July 17, 2014, a Malaysian airline's
0:15.4	triple-7 crashes while flying over the eastern Ukraine, killing 298. July 3, 1988, in
0:22.3	Iran Air Airbus A300 crashes into the Persian Gulf shortly after takeoff from Tehran, killing
0:27.5	298. All three of these planes are brought down in flight by military missiles. What
0:32.4	chain of events could possibly lead to a military shooting down a passenger airplane? Find out
0:36.7	with us on this episode of Black Box Down.
0:38.9	Hey everyone, welcome to Black Box Down, the podcast about air disasters. I'm Gus and
0:46.9	I'm here with Chris. Hello, hi Chris and we're here to talk about, in this particular
0:51.8	episode, we'll talk about military missiles shooting down planes. As always, I want to
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1:08.1	Then you can. Defense on the scale. So, this is a relatively new podcast and we've been
1:15.7	trying to figure out how we're going to do it for a while and a few months ago when we
1:18.9	finally got the green light, we knew we were going to make the podcast. I sat down with
1:21.7	Dennis who does all our research, I tried to see his right over there. I sat down with
1:24.5	Dennis and we wanted to figure out what incidents we wanted to cover and what disasters.
1:29.4	I pitched the idea of having this episode where we just talk about different incidents where
1:35.3	military shoots down a passenger airplane and then literally the next day, another one
1:40.5	of these incidents happened. I don't know if you remember back in January 8th, there was
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