Martin Antonenko
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The Soviet Air Defense doesn't sleep ...!
On April 20, 1978, a civil passenger aircraft of the type "Boeing 707" violated Soviet airspace over Murmansk.
The jet - flight number 902 of "Korean Airlines" - is on its way from Paris via Anchorage to Seoul and the pilot in charge, flight captain Kim Chang Kew, navigated poorly.
The course deviation is so serious that rumors persist to this day that the jet wanted to "test" the Soviet air defense with US approval (or upon request!).
But the Soviet air defense doesn't sleep and sends a "Sukhoj 15" interceptor of the 431st Fighter Air Regiment from base "Afrikanda" near Murmansk...:
Major Aleksander Bosow...
... calls on the Korean machine to land on Soviet territory with clear flight maneuvers. So he sits down just in front of the bow of the Boeing and extends the landing gear - an unmistakable request!
When the Korean Boeing did not respond to repeated radio calls and turned off in the direction of Finland, Major Bosow first fired 42 shots of goods with his on-board machine gun following the appropriate command from his ground control center and finally fired two infrared-controlled "Kaliningrad R-98MR" air-to-air missiles, at the command of the ground station Missiles from ...:
One missile misses, the other hits the passenger aircraft on the left wing close to the fuselage and blows out a large part of the surface.
The Boeing's fuselage is also damaged by explosives, and cabin pressure is falling rapidly. Panic breaks out on board.
When another "Sukhoj 15" approached (pilot Lieutenant Sergei Slobodschikow), the Korean pilot made an emergency landing in the Soviet Union and actually managed to shut down his severely damaged aircraft near the village of Louhi on the ice of the frozen Korpiyärvi lake in Soviet Karelia landing - a flying masterpiece!
The shelling damage caused by the Soviet missile can be clearly seen ...:
A Japanese businessman is killed on board the aircraft by splinter effects - another passenger is seriously injured and succumbs to his injuries while being transported to hospital.
The remaining passengers are released, pilot Kim Chang Kew and his co-pilot Chyn Sin are imprisoned.
They were only released after she made a formal apology and stated that she had deliberately not obeyed the interceptor's orders.
The aircraft's flight recorders and logbooks were confiscated and not made available for an international investigation.
The aircraft will be dismantled and scrapped on the spot ...:
Five years later about Sakhalin, a very similar thing will not end so lightly.
But we'll come to that later ...
On April 20, 1978, a civil passenger aircraft of the type "Boeing 707" violated Soviet airspace over Murmansk.
The jet - flight number 902 of "Korean Airlines" - is on its way from Paris via Anchorage to Seoul and the pilot in charge, flight captain Kim Chang Kew, navigated poorly.
The course deviation is so serious that rumors persist to this day that the jet wanted to "test" the Soviet air defense with US approval (or upon request!).
But the Soviet air defense doesn't sleep and sends a "Sukhoj 15" interceptor of the 431st Fighter Air Regiment from base "Afrikanda" near Murmansk...:
Major Aleksander Bosow...
... calls on the Korean machine to land on Soviet territory with clear flight maneuvers. So he sits down just in front of the bow of the Boeing and extends the landing gear - an unmistakable request!
When the Korean Boeing did not respond to repeated radio calls and turned off in the direction of Finland, Major Bosow first fired 42 shots of goods with his on-board machine gun following the appropriate command from his ground control center and finally fired two infrared-controlled "Kaliningrad R-98MR" air-to-air missiles, at the command of the ground station Missiles from ...:
One missile misses, the other hits the passenger aircraft on the left wing close to the fuselage and blows out a large part of the surface.
The Boeing's fuselage is also damaged by explosives, and cabin pressure is falling rapidly. Panic breaks out on board.
When another "Sukhoj 15" approached (pilot Lieutenant Sergei Slobodschikow), the Korean pilot made an emergency landing in the Soviet Union and actually managed to shut down his severely damaged aircraft near the village of Louhi on the ice of the frozen Korpiyärvi lake in Soviet Karelia landing - a flying masterpiece!
The shelling damage caused by the Soviet missile can be clearly seen ...:
A Japanese businessman is killed on board the aircraft by splinter effects - another passenger is seriously injured and succumbs to his injuries while being transported to hospital.
The remaining passengers are released, pilot Kim Chang Kew and his co-pilot Chyn Sin are imprisoned.
They were only released after she made a formal apology and stated that she had deliberately not obeyed the interceptor's orders.
The aircraft's flight recorders and logbooks were confiscated and not made available for an international investigation.
The aircraft will be dismantled and scrapped on the spot ...:
Five years later about Sakhalin, a very similar thing will not end so lightly.
But we'll come to that later ...
