[GBA]

There's only one official explanation. Check the calendar:

Passenger planes only explode on July 17th because of sparks in the center fuel tank.

If they had a CIA instead of a KGB, they'd already know this. Like, "duh", hello?

[Uncle Chip]

Not just that but people who have visions of surface to air missiles before such explosions disappear.

[McGruff]

I forgot about the July 17th computer glitch.