A Malayasia Airlines MH17 was reportedly shot down by a missile over eastern Ukraine, near the Russian border on Thursday, July 18, 2014, killing all 295 people on board. Ukraine, Russia and the international community are rushing to investigate the incident. This is, however, not the first civilian aircraft to be shot down by military firing.

Here is look at seven other flights that have met with a similar fate.

Libyan Airlines Flight 114, February 1973February 21, 1973: After being intercepted and fired upon by the Israeli Air Force, a Libyan Airlines Boeing 727, flying from Tripoli to Cairo, was destroyed during an attempted forced landing. The flight had accidentally strayed into Israeli airspace due to a navigation error and crashed in the Sinai Desert, 150 km northeast of Cairo, killing 106 of the 113 on board.

Aerolinee Itavia flight 870, June 1980June 27, 1980: Itavia 870 was heading from Bologna to Palermo when it disappeared from radars an hour into the flight. It was found a few hours later crashed near Naples, with all 77 passengers and 4 crew members dead. The cause of the crash is still unknown, and several theories of what could have happened float around, including one that the plane had been hit by an Italian military missile. There were claims that the plane was caught in crossfire during a military exercise involving NATO forces. In its ruling, Italy's top criminal court said there was enough evidence that the flight was hit by a stray missile.

Korean Air Lines Flight 007, September 1983September 1, 1983: Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a Boeing 747 civilian airplane carrying 269 passengers and crew, was headed from New York to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska, when it was shot down by a Soviet Union Su-15TM fighter near Moneron Island in the Sea of Japan. There were no survivors. An official investigation concluded a pilot error cuase the plane to deviate from its course and stray into prohibited Soviet airspace. Soviet forces mistook plane for a US surveillance aircraft and shot it down.

Sudan Airways, August 1986Shortly after taking off from Malakal (now in South Sudan) on its way to Khartoum (Sudan), a Sudan Airways Fokker F-27 was reportedly shot down by the Sudanese "People's Liberation Army", killing all 65 passengers and crew on board.

Iran Air Flight 655, July 1988July 3, 1988: This commercial flight en route from Bandar Abbas to Dubai was shot down by two US Navy missiles from a US warship off the coast of Iran, killing all 290 passengers and crew on board. The USS Vincennes was in Iranian waters and the US Navy said it had mistaken the Airbus A300 for a hostile Iranian Air Force F-14 fighter jet, after the flight allegedly didn't identify itself. The Pentagon initially denied that the flight was shot down by the Navy. It was later reported that flight had been on the correct path and was turned away from the Vincennes when it was shot.

Transair Georgia airliner shoot-downs, September 1993September 21-23, 1993: Three civilian airplanes belonging to Transair Georgia were shot down by missiles over three days, killing 136 people. The planes were hit by rebel missiles in Sukhumi, Abkhazia, Georgia.

Serbian Airlines Flight 1812, October 2001October 4, 2001: Serbian Airlines Flight 1812 was en route from Tel Aviv, Israel to Novosibirsk, Russia, when it was shot down over the Black Sea. The plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile fired from the Crimean peninsula. Investigators later concluded that the plane was brought down by a missile fired during an Ukrainian military exercise. All 66 passengers and 12 crew members on board were killed. Ukraine denied involvement for a week before apologising for the tragedy.

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With inputs from Reuters.