New Shingleton Incident

About
The New Shingleton Incident (aka. Naujojo Šingeltono incidentas, Нов инцидент в Шингълтън) was an incident which occurred in the midnight hours in November 15th 1989 which involved a Boeing 747 Orange Airlines aircraft carrying over hundreds of Bistonian refugees being shot down by a Crimsonian missile. It was a last ditch attempt made by the People's Republic of Crimsonia to halt the migration of Bistonian refugees during the Crimsonian-Bistonian War by infiltrating an aircraft carrying Bistonian refugees, it had abruptly failed and as a result the plane was shot down with the assistance of a man named Zhukov.

After the plane was shot down, the St. Ark military police attempted to control the crowds as they attempted to escape from the airport, because of the overwhelming crowd the commander ordered the permission to fire directly at civillians, resulting in hundreds more dead. The New Shingleton Incident caused major shock worldwide, as it was the most deadliest terrorist attack in history. It also resulted in the collapse of the St. Ark Federation military government 3 days later in 18th of November 1989.

Background
As the year reached 1989, the People's Republic of Crimsonia was in a dire situation. Their troops had been overwhelmed and as a result the West Bistonian Socialist Republic had nearly collapsed and they had been nearly pushed off the Bistonian mainland, as a result the People's Republic of Crimsonia stuck to a new plan, funding local militias in the Bistonian mainland and sending many of their spies from Crimsonian intelligence to conduct terrorist attacks across mainland Bistonia and in many countries which Crimsonia considered inferior. They also had directed attacks mainly towards Bistonian refugees living and seeking for asylum in countries across the world.

As for the St. Ark Federation, it had to deal with an armed resistance movement planning an uprising in the city of Jefferson, in an attempt to revive the democratic government and overthrow Fred Goldlock's regime, the armed resistance movement came to exist in the aftermath of the Jefferson District School bombings, which had occurred 4 years prior in the year of 1985. The St. Ark Federation had struggled and Fred Goldlock had exhausted his forces in securing the city.

In November 1989, the St. Ark Federation Council decided to reopen the country to international trade and allowed many of its civillians to enter outside the country for the first time in decades as part of a plan to revitalize the country before the end of the 10 year martial law in the country, the council also allowed many Bistonian refugees to return to the Provisional Government of Bistonia which resulted in an sudden influx of hundreds of Bistonian refugees to several airports, one of them was the Steven Ogg International Airport. However, the decision made by the council had both good and bad sides, as the bad side of the decision included the sudden increase in attacks carried out by terrorists linked to the People's Republic of Crimsonia, however the St. Ark Federation had no attempt to quell the sudden increase in attacks and largely ignored it, as Fred Goldlock continued to increase military presence in New Shingleton.

Prior to the Incident
Prior to the incident, an Orange Airlines Boeing 747 aircraft was bound to be headed from New Shingleton to the city of New Vilnius, with a stopover in the city of Mazoji, they were also given permission to fly by both governments, however like most aircraft in the vicinity, it was booked by hundreds of Bistonian refugees who seeked to return to Bistonia after the war, in the Crimsonian side, they began their focus on the aircraft, as it had a large quantity, their plans were simple, to send over 4 from their groups to the Steven Ogg International Airport and hold hundreds of refugees hostage and start a crisis where they would meet their demands. However before they could conduct their plans, the St. Ark military police had discovered them as they had been wearing pants belonging to the Crimsonian army, and they were then caught in the diner a short distance away from the entrance of the airport. They were then escorted out of the diner and placed in a van were they were shot by a pistol. They were then wrapped in fabric and placed in metal coffins outside of the van, and they were placed in an unmarked gravesite.

As their plan to hold an entire plane hostage had failed, the Crimsonians moved to plan B, which was a more violent approach to halt the influx of Bistonian refugees returning to the country. It involved a Crimsonian missile which was installed inside an abandoned building, which was once a navy quarters belonging to the United States of Megaton and Columbia before the independence of St. Ark in 1957, which would be fired and shot directly into the fuselage of the plane once it passed near Petrusca Village using a man who would be named as Zhukov, who was a spy who avoided detection. Then, a hidden location for Crimsonian intelligence known as Cafe Bistonia was spotted and raided by the authorities.

The Incident
As it reached midnight, the Orange Airlines Boeing 747 aircraft was bound to take off from New Shingleton to the city of New Vilnius, with the city of Mazoji being its stopover, over 356 passengers boarded the aircraft, with the majority of them being Bistonian refugees. It then took off from Steven Ogg International Airport at around 11:14 PM and took a turn around the airport mid-air. It then flew towards the Scattered Islands archipelago, at around this time a broadcast was made from the Georgi Dimitrov Military Base to the abandoned building over a distance away from the area where the missile was fired from. During this time the aircraft was serving dinner to the passengers mid-air after takeoff, then at around 11:32 PM, Zhukov was given permission to fire a missile directly towards the plane, and launched it towards the aircraft, however a malfunction occurred inside the missile which forced it suddenly land into the waters near Petrusca Village, presumably due to the condition of the missile. After the first round failed to launch, Zhukov out of desperation launched another missile, this time it would be fatal and successful.

The missile then struck at the back fuselage of the plane including the back wings, which instantly killed some of its passengers in the cabin. The plane then suddenly began breaking into pieces, including the cockpit of the plane. The wings suddenly exploded which killed another round of passengers and as a result the plane was set ablaze, resulting in many passengers sustaining major burn injuries to the body and corpses charred as a result. Then afterwards the pieces of the plane then went down below the ocean near Pescavillagio, due to the low sea levels, parts of the plane could be visibly seen. Fragments of the plane also floated on the ocean and the fire remained burning. After the plane crashed, dozens near the area of the site witnessed the plane crash, resulting in a panic by passengers in Steven Ogg International Airport.

The Massacre
As hundreds began panicking and attempting to flee the airport, the St. Ark Military Police blocked the entrance as an attempt to quell the desperate crowd, which had pleaded to escape the airport. As the crowd grew violent, windows were broken by crowds who attempted to escape the airport on the other sides, the first rounds of live ammunition were then fired which resulted in dozens dead as they attempted to flee the area, flights were then cancelled and planes were left abandoned near the terminal. Because of the tension, the chief received a phone call from one of the officers, and as a result ordered the permission to kill all civillians on sight who had resisted. A minute after, the massacre began.

Rounds were fired towards civillians through windows and blood began splattering all over the walls and floors, and bodies began piling up one and another. Some of them also attempted to hide from the officers in stores inside the airport, with the majority of them being shot. As a result, over 542 civillians were shot dead. As the clock struck 12:00 PM, the chief halted permission to kill the civillians on sight, ending the shootout. Civillians who survived had been forced out into lines where they were evacuated from the airport using the Green Line through Ambelaide Station. Pilots, flight attendants, staff personnel and over a dozen refugees were shot dead. Then, the chief ordered many of the bodies inside the airport to be dragged and carried out into military trucks outside of the airport.

Then afterwards, the St. Ark Military Police discovered the location of where the missile was launched with the help of eyewitnesses which had survived the shootout, and a team was then rushed to the scene using old Wercell Tugboats near the fire station with the help of firefighters, and 10 minutes after, they had arrived in Zhukov's residence including Petrusca Village. Many workers from Petrusca Village who was working in Zhukov's fishing company were also rounded up and shot to death by the military police, they had also arrived to Zhukov's residence where they also rounded up the Zhukov family including the perpetrator and also shot him. Many personal belongings and furniture belonging to the Zhukov family including the workers in Petrusca Village were then stolen and burned down into a pit. Then, the St. Ark Military Police then arrived to the Georgi Dimitrov Military Base doubled with the amount, as the base belonged to the People's Republic of Crimsonia. A clash ensued and resulted in Military Police finally securing the base. As they breached into the underground sectors of the base they had broke nearly everything including machinery, and also caught many of the commanders responsible for the attack. They were then rounded up and shot and then they were dumped into the ocean.

Aftermath
2 days before the downfall of Fred Goldlock's regime, the Steven Ogg International Airport closed down temporarily and the company which had constructed the airport was ordered to cleanup the massacre which had occurred. Water and electricity was cut from the airport. By then, fragments of the plane which had been floating near Pescavillagio had been spotted including eyewitness accounts. Then, media outlets began flocking to the site where it had occurred and they were then apprehended. By then the coverup was too late, as news of the incident began spreading nationwide and globally, with the president of the United States of Megaton and Columbia citing it as a catastrophic incident. 2 days later, it became one of the factors which had caused Fred Goldlock's regime to collapse. An investigation was launched 12 days after the incident, with the Commonwealth of United and Free Nations officials intervening in the investigation.

After weeks, an operation began which involved the cleanup of the site of the plane crash, as it had contaminated the ocean surrounding the site, the wreck of the plane was then retrieved using tugboats and months later the plane crash site was cleared. The Scattered Islands Archipelago including many of its remaining indigenous inhabitants were also forced to evacuate the area by both the St. Ark Federation and the Provisional Government of Bistonia including inhabitants in the microstate of the Republic of Seruditium. It was dissolved the following day.

Reactions
After the New Shingleton incident, reactions by world governments were fierce and had sometimes change their views on the world forever. In the United States of Megaton and Columbia, they had placed restrictions on public transportation in order to avoid any catastrophic incidents. In the Republic of Zedrutia, military police was deployed to Kromząmske and Tarnochowice to prevent future incidents.

People's Republic of Crimsonia
The People's Republic of Crimsonia, despite being held responsible for the New Shingleton Incident, had denied any claims of committing terrorist attacks in the St. Ark Federation, however after the Mesothemian Organization decided to bomb Kradovo as an attempt to force Crimsonia to accept their involvement, the Crimsonian government had then officially announced that they held responsibility for the deadly attack, and accepted the ultimatium received by the Commonwealth of United and Free Nations and other countries, however the government had largely ignored the ultimatium and never gave other countries demands until the end of the Crimsonian-Bistonian War in 1990. Despite the incident they still continued to operate bases in the Scattered Islands archipelago until the 2000s.

Provisional Government of Bistonia
In the New Shingleton Incident, nearly a thousand Bistonian nationals were killed, in which the Provisional Government of Bistonia responded. They had demanded that the St. Ark Federation should place restrictions and relax the sudden influx of Bistonian refugees returning to the mainland. However due to fierce relations between the two and the overthrow of Fred Goldlock's regime, this demand was never put in place. The Provisional Government of Bistonia also had to deal with the People's Republic of Crimsonia at the time, which didn't give them enough time to force the St. Ark Federation into the demands. The Bistonian government also ordered all civillians from the Scattered Islands archipelago to evacuate the area as it had been contaminated.

Republic of Zedrutia
The Republic of Zedrutia responded days after the New Shingleton Incident by deploying their military police to the unstable State of Kromząmske and Tarnochowice in an attempt to prevent other future events from happening. Military police withdrew from Kromząmske and Tarnochowice in the year of 1994.

United States of Megaton and Columbia
Days after receiving news from what had happened in New Shingleton, the president of the United States of Megaton and Columbia had called the incident a catastrophic incident, and as a result restrictions were placed on public transportation across the country until the complete collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the end of the Cold War.

Commonwealth of United and Free Nations
The Commonwealth of United and Free Nations responded with condemnation towards the People's Republic of Crimsonia, and after an investigation was launched regarding the New Shingleton Incident, many officials from the Commonwealth of United and Free Nations began intervening in the investigation.

Mesothemian Organization
The Mesothemian Organization, after receiving news of the New Shingleton Incident, had enough of Crimsonian terrorist attacks and as a result demanded that Crimsonia should accept the ultimatium after they had refused dozens of times. After Crimsonia continued to deny their involvement in the incident the Mesothemian Organization was given permission to fly their jets into the People's Republic of Crimsonia and bombard factories in Kradovo, which overwhelmed the industry in the city. They had finally forced Crimsonia to admit their attacks and accept the ultimatium, something that they had not done for 40 years.