The Last Minutes of Flight 007

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The Last Minutes of Flight 007 How the pilot of the Soviet SU-15 described his attack on the Korean Airlines jumbo jet. 1 1821.35-1822.42" "The target's (strobe] light is blinking, Ihave already approached the target at a distance of about two kilometers... How canI chase it? I'm already abeam of the target" 2 1822.55-1823.37 "Now thave to fall back a bit from the target...Im dropping back. NowI will try a rocket" 3 1825.11-1826.20 "I am closing on the target, am in lock-on. Distance to target is 8 (kilometers)... have executed the launch" 4 1826.22-1826.27 "The target is destroyed...! am breaking off attack" From Anchorage *Greenwich Mean Time KOREAN AIR LINES ALASKA 4АМСНАТКА Probable flight path of U.S. reconnaissance plane RC-135 Petropavlovsk SEA OF OKHOTSK Shemya U.S. air facility SAKHALIN Nippi checkpoint Yuzhno- Sakhalinsk Path of KAL 007 PACIFIC OCEAN Sovetskaya Gavan Debris found A Wakkanai Japanese radar ONokka checkpoint SOVIET MILITARY SITES Air defense facility Moneron Island Airbase JAPAN Naval base Submarine base SEA OF JAPAN Nuclear missiles U.S.S.R. Soviet Pacific Fleet HQ Vladivostok Restricted air space (12 nautical miles) CHINA To Seoul Tokyo TIME Diagram by Nigel Holme KURIL ISLANDS HOKKAIDO Scheduled route

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On September 1, 1983, a Korean Air Liner, flight 007, from the U.S. was shot down off the coast of Hokkaido by a Soviet Su-15 supersonic fighter plane killing 269 who were aboard, including some Americans. Anti Russian protests erupted outside the White House, in Korea, and elsewhere around the world and sparked a widespread search by Japanese and American navies — first for survivors, then sadly for bodies and evidence of the disaster. The Russians claimed their territory had been violated by this "so-called spy plane." President Reagan was busy denying that it was a U-2 spy plane as he expressed sorrow and warned that this was not the time for the retaliation many patriots demanded. P.O.Box 314, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 Published by Coral-Lee CL-RR. #128 SC18580 — Diagram by Nigel Holmes Courtesy of Time Magazine Mike Roberts Color Productions TM Oakland, CA 94623