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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
that tells me that the odds of this being an accidental shooting down of a civilian airliner are very low.
If this was a Russian crew, they are trained on the use of the weapon platform, the censors, aircraft identification and the use of the optical camera system.
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It's low but it can happen, even the USN screwed up with Iran Air 655.
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If you want to class something as a war crime, this would be it.
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It seems unlikely, not even the most blatant civilian airline shootdowns (ie the two KAL, Libyan Air, etc) have ever been prosecuted as a war crime.