On June 4th, 20001year, the Tu- 154 passenger plane of Russian Siberian Airlines, flight number 18 12, with 66 passengers and 12 crew on board, crashed in the Black Sea, 60 miles away from the Russian Black Sea resort Suo Contract. (At that time, two minutes before the accident, the air defense forces fired two long-range surface-to-air missiles at the target unmanned aerial vehicle 80 kilometers away. One successfully hit the drone, and the other flew over the Black Sea for 240 kilometers after passing the predetermined position, locking the passing flight 18 12 as the target and hitting it. There are more than 350 bullet holes in the fuselage of the crashed passenger plane.

At the end of 2000110, Ukrainian President Kuchma admitted the tragic incident caused by this unexpected attack when he published the investigation results in the media. Later, the Ukrainian military executives apologized in writing, and the defense minister and the commander of the air defense force were dismissed. In 2003, the Ukrainian government paid $200,000 in compensation to the families of all the victims of the air crash.