The chance of one of Mr. Ronery's various Dongs hitting a passenger plane or fishing boat in that large area is just about nil--the old "hitting a bullet with a bullet." But, it's a chance that doesn't need to be taken. If that one-in-a-million chance DID happen...
Asiana's a Taiwanese carrier? Or South Korean?
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We did have a shootdown of a KAL as you remember by the Soviets. I think we are in the same tense mode right now. This is disrupting commerce, oil rates, movement of people, everything right now. Everything KJI is doing is destabilizing.
I agree, a random missile hit would be rare indeed. But since I witnessed a "near miss" several years ago over the Grand Canyon area, commercial flying can still give me the willies, even given the enormous statistical safety boons.
How near was it? It buffeted our plane (Southwest Airlines, Phoenix to Sacramento), when another jet airliner flew directly underneath in a near t-bone (west to east) angle. Only myself and one other passenger, who was also window gazing, even saw the other plane streak by. All the other passengers, including at least one flight attendant I talked to, just assumed we had hit a pocket of air turbulence. Scary...that cross-path (west to east) plane looked bigger'n Dallas approaching in the portside window.