Korean Air Flight 007 | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-05

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00:02:47 1 Details of the flight
00:02:57 1.1 Passengers and crew
00:05:52 1.2 Flight deviation from assigned route
00:15:07 1.3 Shootdown
00:22:13 1.3.1 Soviet pilot's recollection of shootdown
00:25:18 1.3.2 Soviet command hierarchy of shootdown
00:28:03 1.3.3 Post-attack flight
00:33:36 1.3.4 Soviet command response to post-detonation flight
00:34:40 1.3.5 Missile damage to plane
00:34:59 1.3.5.1 Hydraulics
00:37:18 1.3.5.2 Left wing
00:38:45 1.3.5.3 Engines
00:39:02 1.3.5.4 Tail section
00:39:49 1.3.5.5 Fuselage
00:40:33 2 Aircraft
00:41:23 3 Search and rescue
00:42:22 3.1 Soviet search and rescue mission to Moneron Island
00:44:36 3.2 Search for KAL&#160;007 in international waters
00:53:00 4 Human remains and artifacts
00:53:10 4.1 Surface finds
00:56:06 4.2 Hokkaido finds
00:58:14 4.3 Russian diver reports
01:02:14 5 Political events
01:02:23 5.1 Initial Soviet denial
01:04:13 5.2 U.S. reaction and further developments
01:10:22 6 Investigations
01:10:32 6.1 NTSB
01:12:07 6.2 Initial ICAO investigation (1983)
01:16:42 6.3 U.S. Air Force radar data
01:17:51 6.4 Interim developments
01:21:53 6.4.1 Soviet memoranda
01:24:16 6.5 Revised ICAO report (1993)
01:28:42 6.6 Passenger pain and suffering
01:30:41 7 Alternative hypotheses
01:31:36 8 Aftermath
01:39:01 9 Popular culture
01:43:46 10 Maps
01:43:54 11 See also
01:44:55 12 Footnotes



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Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (also known as KAL007 and KE007) was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska. On 1 September 1983, the South Korean airliner serving the flight was shot down by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor. The Boeing 747 airliner was en route from Anchorage to Seoul, but deviated from its original planned route and flew through Soviet prohibited airspace about the time of a U.S. aerial reconnaissance mission. The Soviet Air Forces treated the unidentified aircraft as an intruding U.S. spy plane, and proceeded to destroy it with air-to-air missiles, after firing warning shots which were likely not seen by the KAL pilots. The Korean airliner eventually crashed in the sea near Moneron Island west of Sakhalin in the Sea of Japan. All 269 passengers and crew aboard were killed, including Larry McDonald, a United States Representative from Georgia. The Soviets found the wreckage under the sea on September 15, and found the flight recorders in October, but this information was kept secret until 1993.
The Soviet Union initially denied knowledge of the incident, but later admitted shooting down the aircraft, claiming that it was on a MASINT spy mission. The Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union said it was a deliberate provocation by the United States to probe the Soviet Union's military preparedness, or even to provoke a war. The White House accused the Soviet Union of obstructing search and rescue operations. The Soviet Armed Forces suppressed evidence sought by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) investigation, such as the flight recorders, which were released eight years later, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.The incident was one of the most tense moments of the Cold War and resulted in an escalation of anti-Soviet sentiment, particularly in the United States.
As a result of the incident, the United States altered tracking procedures for aircraft departing from Alaska. The interface of the autopilot used on airliners was redesigned to make it more ergonomic. In addition, the incident was one of the most important events that prompted the Reagan administration to allow worldwide access to the United States Global Positioning System (GPS).