{"id":98377,"date":"2024-07-31T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/finnair-flight-915-attempted-shootdown-facts-list\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T10:00:12","slug":"finnair-flight-915-5-facts-about-the-alleged-attempted-airliner-shootdown-that-was-kept-secret-for-27-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=98377","title":{"rendered":"Finnair Flight 915: 5 Facts About The Alleged Attempted Airliner Shootdown That Was Kept Secret For 27 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Finland is now a member of NATO, during the Cold War, it was forced by the USSR to become a natural country (in a process called ‘Finlandization’). In 2014, it came to light that a Finnair<\/a> passenger jet had nearly been shot down<\/a> by a missile in 1987. It’s now been over 100 years since Finnair’s first flight<\/a> and, over that time, the company has had to operate during the Winter War, the Continuation War, and the constant threat of the USSR during the Cold War. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a brush with death, a Finnair DC-10 narrowly avoided being shot down by the Soviets in the Cold War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,120,1578,1577,408,3773,4462],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-europe","category-finland","category-finnair","category-history","category-mcdonnell-douglas-dc-10","category-shot-down"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t