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(March 10, 2009) Read KAL Flight 007 Remembered, an article in The New American magazine commemorating the 25th anniversary of KAL 007. (September 2, 2008)
Do you know who this girl is? If you have any information about this KAL 007 passenger, please contact us.
On September 1, 1983, Korean Air Lines flight 007, on its way from Anchorage, Alaska to Seoul, Korea, carrying 269 passengers and crew, strayed off its intended course and entered into Soviet airspace. A Soviet Sukhoi 15 fighter jet, piloted by Major Gennadie Osipovich, was sent up to destroy the intruding Boeing 747. This, at the height of the Cold War era, was a major international incident. At the time, it was - and still is - widely believed that the plane "exploded", "plummeted uncontrollably" into the ocean, and was "destroyed", killing all aboard, including Lawrence ("Larry") Patton McDonald, Representative (D), 7th District, Georgia. The evidence, however, tells another story. Japanese radar trackings, Soviet ground-to-ground and ground-to-air communications, KAL 007's flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, the debris (and lack thereof), eye-witness testimonies... All these and more, when pieced together, tell of a plane which was, indeed, damaged, but which managed to land safely, and of passengers who survived and were rescued by the Russians -- only to be imprisoned to this day.
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We draw your
attention to the recent "miracle on the Hudson," the safe water landing of
US Airways Flight 1549, Airbus A320 with 100% survival rate, with many
standing on the wings - just as happened, according to one report, in the case
of KAL 007. But this was not a one time miracle and there has never been an
attempted water landing of a passenger plane - with no survivors! See
