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Missiles now biggest killer of airplane passengers

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Dec 27, 2024
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4K-AZ65 in better days. Mehmet Mustafa Celik (CC BY-SA 4.0)

If you died in an airplane in 2024, chances are you were hit by a missile. Wednesday's crash of an Azerbaijani jet, taken out by an air defense system in Russia, gave that cause the largest slice of the pie in the chart.

Jetliners being accidentally blasted out of the sky has become the leading c…

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