Just an unlucky day. Lots of military flights going on. 14 military aircraft destroyed in the first 10 months of 2024, or approximately once every 3 weeks on average. Odds of about 1 in 440 for 2 to happen on the same day. Rare, but not extraordinary. (No less regrettable, however.)

Coincidences happen all the time, contrary to popular misbelief. The odds of someone sharing the same calendar birthday with another is 1 in 365, which means there are about a million matches out there. For 3 people on the same day, the odds are 1 in 133,225, for which there are probably 2,627 matches. Remember that when you ask "What are the odds?", you are not asking whether something is possible...you are asking how often something is going to happen.