Korean Air Lines Flight 007
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| Date | 1 September 1983 |
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| Location | Pacific Ocean, near Moneron Island, Sakhalin Island, Soviet Union |
| Blamed on | USSR |
Contents
Official Narrative
The flight strayed accidentally into USSR airspace and was shot down by the USSR.
Victims
Congressman Larry McDonald was aboard Korean Air Lines Flight 007, which was reputedly shot down by the USSR. In 1980 he introduced the American Legion National Convention Resolution 773 to the House of Representatives intending to investigate the Trilateral Commission.
Investigation
Since the aircraft had departed from US soil and US nationals had died in the incident, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was legally required to investigate.[citation needed] However, on the morning of September 1, the NTSB chief in Alaska, James Michelangelo, received an (illegal) order from the NTSB in Washington at the behest of the US State Department requiring that they terminate their investigation and send all documents relating to it to Washington, where the State Department would now conduct their own investigation.[1]
The US State Department pursued an ICAO investigation instead, effectively precluding any politically or militarily sensitive information from being subpoenaed that might have contradicted the Reagan administration's version of events.[2] Unlike the NTSB, ICAO can subpoena neither persons nor documents and is dependent on the governments involved — in this incident, the United States, the Soviet Union, Japan and South Korea — to supply evidence voluntarily.
Initial ICAO investigation (1983)
The International Civil Aviation Organization had only one experience of investigation of an air disaster prior to the KAL 007, the incident of February 21, 1973 concerning Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114. ICAO convention required the state in whose territory the accident had taken place (the USSR) to conduct an investigation together with the country of registration ([[South Korea]), the country whose air traffic control the aircraft was flying under (Japan), as well as the aircraft's manufacturer (Boeing).
The ICAO investigation, led by Caj Frostell,[3] could not access to sensitive evidence such as radar data, intercepts, ATC tapes, or the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) (whose discovery the U.S.S.R. had kept secret). A number of simulations were conducted with the assistance of Boeing and Litton (the manufacturer of the navigation system).[4] The ICAO released their report December 2, 1983, concluding that the violation of Soviet airspace was accidental.
A Korean Air Lines Flight 007 victim on Wikispooks
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Larry McDonald | A US congressman who placed legislative pressure on the CFR. Died in Korean Air Lines Flight 007. |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Did Larry McDonald Survive The Shootdown Of KAL 007.pdf | Article | Dick Eastman | Did Larry McDonald Survive The 'Shootdown' Of KAL 007? | |
| File:KAL 007 Remembered The Questions Remain Unanswered.pdf | Article | Robert W. Lee | Summary in 1991 from Robert W. Lee. | |
| File:KAL Flight 007 Remembered.pdf | Article | Warren Mass | Summary in 2008 from Warren Mass. | |
| File:The Anniversary of KAL Flight 007 Prompts Another Look.pdf | Article | Warren Mass | Summary in 2014 from Warren Mass. | |
| File:What Happened to Flight 007 - The New American.pdf | Article | Robert W. Lee | Summary in 1988 from Robert W. Lee. | |
| File:Who Killed Congressman Lawrence Patton McDonald The State Department Cover-Up Of KAL Flight 007.pdf | Article | Todd Brendan Fahey | The State Department Cover-Up Of KAL Flight 007. | |
| Who Killed Congressman Larry McDonald | article | February 1984 | Larry Flynt |
The Official Culprit
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Soviet Union | An union of Russian-backed states led by communists. After a civil war it became the largest country and fastest-growing economy of the 1900s, and superpower from the 1940s. Its 1-century history is full of mass starvation, Jewish influence, targeting by Bilderberg, proxy-wars, and a lasting communist and cultural mark (including on other countries). Its role in saving Western Europe from Nazi Germany is often downplayed. Dissolved in 1991 into Russia and 15 other states. |
References
- ↑ KAL 007:Cover-Up, David Pearson, Summit Press, N.Y., 1987, p. 127
- ↑ Johnson, p. 227
- ↑ "ISASI—Air Safety Through Accident Investigation". Isasi.org. January 1, 2004. Retrieved August 15, 2012.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ Shootdown, R.W. Johnson, Viking, N.Y. 1985, p. 232
