The aircraft flying as Korean Air Lines Flight 007 departed from Gate 15 of John F.
The incident was one of the tensest moments of the Cold War and resulted in an escalation of anti-Soviet sentiment, particularly in the United States.Īs a result of the incident, the United States altered tracking procedures for aircraft departing from Alaska, and President Ronald Reagan issued a directive making American satellite-based radionavigation Global Positioning System freely available for civilian use, once it was sufficiently developed, as a common good. The Soviet Armed Forces suppressed evidence sought by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) investigation, such as the flight recorders, which were released ten years later, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The US accused the Soviet Union of obstructing search and rescue operations. 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 Soviet Union initially denied knowledge of the incident, but later admitted to shooting down the aircraft, claiming that it was on a MASINT spy mission. The Soviet Union found the wreckage under the sea two weeks later on September 15 and found the flight recorders in October, but this information was kept secret by the Soviet authorities until after the country's collapse. All 269 passengers and crew aboard were killed, including Larry McDonald, a United States representative. The Korean airliner eventually crashed in the sea near Moneron Island west of Sakhalin in the Sea of Japan. spy plane, and destroyed it with air-to-air missiles, after firing warning shots which were probably not seen by the KAL pilots. The Soviet Air Forces treated the unidentified aircraft as an intruding U.S. The Boeing 747 airliner was en route from Anchorage to Seoul, but owing to a navigational mistake made by the crew, the airliner drifted from its original planned route and flew through Soviet prohibited airspace.
On September 1, 1983, the flight was shot down by a Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 interceptor. Korean Air Lines Flight 007 ( KE007/ KAL007) was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska.
Shot down by the Soviet Air Forces after navigation error by KAL pilots, leading to in-flight breakup HL7442, the aircraft that was shot down, landing at Zurich Airport in 1980.
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