RE:How much fact or fiction????A comparison:
17 July 2014 Malaysian Airline Flight 17 enroute Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur shot down over Ukraine by a Russian missile killing all 298 passengers and crew. This tragic piece of senseless stupidity still comes up on western newsfeeds two years later, (as it should).
3 July 1988 Iran Air Flight 655 enroute Teheran to Dubai, a scheduled civilian flight in Iranian air space was shot down by surface to air missile from the USS Vincennes killing all 290 onboard, including 66 children. (oops!)