On April 20-th 1978 in the region of Kola Peninsula Soviet border was crossed by the passenger Boeing-707-321B (HL7429) Korean Air Lines (KAL) Flight 902 (Paris - Anchorage - Seoul) that was out of its normal route.
There was the other one that got shot down over Sakhalin, KAL had a nasty habit of going into USSR land. Wasn't there serious evidence that the whole thing was a CIA spying operation that went horribly wrong?
You probably mean KAL flight 007 in September 1st 1983. In this case russians pilot who shot the plane, Gennady Osipovich confessed that airliner was civilian. That happened 1996. You said nasty habit..? I would say that russian didn't have any habits, even nasty ones!
This message has been edited by Finlandia on Jan 28, 2008 11:05 PM
