Korean Air Lines Flight 007
On September 1, 1983 Boeing 747 suddenly flew into Soviet Union airspace over Kamtchatka Peninsula. It was Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and soon Soviet fighters were sent to intercept the intruder. Despite knowledge that this is a commercial flight full of civilians Soviets decided to shot it down. But the question is why Flight 007 was diverted from its original route and why it didn’t answer to Russian fighters.
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Korean Air Lines Flight 007 facts
Flight 007
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was a commercial Boeing 747. That day,August 30, 1983, the aircraft departed JFK Airport in New York City on 35 minutes behind the schedule. Boeing took off about 4:25 UTC and headed to Seoul in South Korea. Aboard there were 246 passengers and 23 crew members. After refu...
Route to catastrophe
Situation in Far East in 1983 was tense - China and Soviet Union were trying to keep the capitalist as far from their borders as possible, while North Korea, just like today, saw any country other than Soviet Union as the possible threat. That’s why the route of Flight 007 wasn’t a straight line...
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 theories
Technical errors
The simplest explanation to the events that led to shooting down KAL 007 is a chain of technical errors - on the plane and on the ground. Facts that are supporting the theory: - the Anchorage VOR beacon (that would allow the crew of KAL 007 to check their real course) was not operationa...
Cannon fodder theory
There is theory that KAL 007 wasn’t a mistake, but intentional operation of American airforce. It is sometimes called "ferret mission" from the tactics used by the American airforce in Vietnam to destroy enemy air defence installations - one plane (called ferret) was flying in risky way to trigger...
Spy flight
Spy flight theory assumes that KAL 007 wasn’t in fact passenger flight, but empty Boeing plane that was pretending to be KAL 007, probably with installed military equipment to provide more data from the flight. Facts that are supporting the theory: - no bodies were recovered from the ...
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