Two other Yugoslav officers were tried in absentia in Italy and convicted in 2013, while Serbia was ordered to pay monetary damages to the victims' families.

The Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija – JNA) confiscated Croatia's Territorial Defence (Teritorijalna obrana - TO) weapons to minimize resistance.

[1] On 17 August, the tensions escalated into an open revolt by Croatian Serbs,[2] centered on the predominantly Serb-populated areas of the Dalmatian hinterland around Knin,[3] parts of the Lika, Kordun, Banovina and eastern Croatia.

[7] In early April, the leaders of the Croatian Serb revolt declared their intention to integrate the area under their control, known as SAO Krajina, with Serbia.

[14] On 8 October, Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia,[15] and a month later the ZNG was renamed the Croatian Army (Hrvatska vojska - HV).

[9] The fiercest fighting of the war occurred around this time, when the 1991 Yugoslav campaign in Croatia culminated in the Siege of Dubrovnik,[16] and the Battle of Vukovar.

[19] In December 1991, the European Community (EC) announced its decision to grant formal diplomatic recognition to Croatia as of 15 January 1992.

[20] On 7 January 1992, a pair of Italian Army Agusta-Bell AB-206L LongRanger helicopters operated by ECMM observers entered Croatian air space from Hungary.

Šišić was guided to the incoming helicopters at an altitude of 3,000 metres (9,800 feet), and then ordered to make a full circle with his jet.

[24] The helicopter was shot down near the village of Podrute, located in an area administered by the city of Novi Marof, north of Zagreb.

[27] The crash site was toured by the police, ECMM staff and journalists,[29] and EC representatives visited Belgrade to receive a report on the incident from Yugoslav authorities.

[35] His account is contradicted by crash scene eyewitnesses,[29] as well as Željava Air Base radar data, both of which indicate that only two aircraft were flying to Zagreb.

He was ultimately extradited to Italy in June 2002, where he was subsequently tried, convicted, and sentenced to 15 years in prison for five counts of homicide and causing an aircraft disaster.

[36] In 2013, the Appeals Court in Rome tried Opačić, General Ljubomir Bajić, commander of the 5th Aviation Corps, and Colonel Božidar Martinović, head of the Yugoslav Air Defence operational centre in Belgrade in absentia for the attack.

[37] Eychenne was posthumously promoted to lieutenant commander effective 7 January 1992, and attributed Mort pour la France on 14 April of the same year.