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After accidentally straying into Israeli-occupied airspace, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two fighter aircraft, killing 108 of the 113 people on board.
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Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114
1973 Israeli shootdown of an airliner
Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Tripoli, Libya, to Cairo, Egypt, through Benghazi, that was shot down in 1973 by Israeli fighter jets after it mistakenly entered the airspace of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula – then under…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Fighter aircraft
Military aircraft for air-to-air combat
Fighter aircraft are military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat. In military conflict, the role of fighter aircraft is to establish air superiority of the battlespace. Domination of the airspace above a battlefield permits bombers and attack aircraft to engage in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)