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Originally Posted by accord1999
It's low but it can happen, even the USN screwed up with Iran Air 655.
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.
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There are couple of noteworthy differences though. Iran Air 655 was flying low enough that it was a more reasonable error to make (and it was flying 27 minutes off schedule).. The Malaysia flight was flying at an altitude that you would more likely expect a civilian aircraft to be.
The Iran flight was 26 years ago. Surely there would be better safeguards in place now.