Volume 32, Number 7 · April 25, 1985
KE007 A Conspiracy of Circumstance
By Murray Sayle
Black Box: KAL 007 and the Superpowers
by Alexander Dallin
University of California Press, 130 pp., $7.95 (paper)
KAL Flight 007: The Hidden Story
by Oliver Clubb
Permanent Press, 174 pp., $16.95
Final Report of Investigation as Required in the Council Resolution of September 16, 1983 [C-WP/7764]
International Civil Aviation Organization (Montreal), 113, restricted, but available on serious request pp.
1818th Report to Council by the President of the Air Navigation Commission [C-WP/7809]
International Civil Aviation Organization (Montreal), 23, restricted, but available on serious request pp.
North Atlantic Airspace Operations Manual—Fourth Edition
Civil Aviation Authority (London), 32, available on request pp.
NOPAC Route Systems Operations Handbook Administration
Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center, Federal Aviation, 16, available on request pp.
Shortly before dawn on September 1, 1983, a Boeing 747 Flight KE007 of Korean Air Lines was shot down over Sakhalin Island in the Soviet Far East by an SU-15 fighter of the Soviet Air Force, with the loss of all 269 passengers and crew on board. The incident set off a contest in vituperation between the super-powers, which, a year and a half later, still reverberates. President Reagan called the shoot-down 'a terrorist act to sacrifice the lives of innocent human beings,' while the Soviets have never ceased charging that the aircraft was engaged on a 'special mission' of electronic espionage on behalf of the United States, thus by implication justifying what they call their 'termination' of the flight.
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