![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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 around the time of a U.S. On 1 September 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 HL7442, the aircraft that was shot down, landing at Zurich Airport in 1980. ![]()
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