Martin Antonenko
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296 Dead After a "Game Of Chess" During The Cold War ...
On September 1, 1983, 269 people pay with their lives to play the trans-Pacific chess game during the Cold War!
This Boeing 747 of "Korean Airlines", flight no. "KAL 007" ...
... on a flight from Anchorage (Canada) to Seoul violated Soviet airspace and strangely enough passed a Russian military base on Kamchatka.
After about an hour of observation, the 747 is shot down over international waters west of Sakhalin Island, where it previously violated the airspace of the USSR a second time.
Among the victims is an aspiring well-known US MP: Democratic Congressman Larry P. McDonald, cousin of legendary US General George Patton ...:
What US President Ronald Reagan and the South Korean government (eagerly seconded by the German government!) immediately branded as “evidence of Soviet barbarism” actually has a highly mysterious background - because the “Korean Air” jumbo was notalone that night!
The Soviet side, here Air Marshal Nikolaj Ogarkov ...
… on the other hand, calls KAL 007 during a specially convened press conference (unusual enough at the time!) a “spy plane that does not react to warning shots and therefore represented a legitimate target”.
And the Soviets are right!
The US secretly tested the Soviet Union's air defenses that night - and KAL 007 was the decoy!
The truth about the incident only came to light bit by bit ...:
In fact, US special reconnaissance aircraft of the type "RC-135", the military version of the Boeing 707, crossed in that night - the silhouette very similar to the 747 ...
... the flight path of KAL 007 in its radar shadow, wie die nachfolgende Karte der Kurse beider Flugzeuge zeigt...:
From the published Soviet radio messages it is clear that both the KAL-Jumbo and the RC-135 were detected by the Russian radar, which for a short time led to hopeless confusion of the Soviet radar observers, whether one or two airspace violators were involved.
The special reconnaissance aircraft RC 135 was commissioned to measure the Soviet fire control radar.
But since it is not activated in peacetime, the "electronic reconnaissance planes" have to stimulate the opposing radar stations with fake attacks.
Not only are the working frequencies of the radar systems determined, but above all their response times are tested.
The Korean jet took on this “stimulation”.
A quarter of an hour before the launch, a Soviet Sukhoj 15 interceptor ...
... radioed the Korean pilot several requests to land in the USSR. The Korean plane ignores these requests!
Even when the hunter fired warning shots, KAL 007 was stubborn and apparently flies on undeterred.
Only after this Colonel Gerasimenko...
... that night the duty officer of the 41st fighter squadron (Sokol base, Kamschatka) gives the order to shoot down the plane, after having a talk with the commanding officer, Lieutenant General Anatoly Kornukow ...
Before confirming the launch order, General Kornukow held a consultation with Air Marshal Ogarkov ...
... at Moscow!
Major Gennadij Nikolajewitsch Ossipowitsch…
... in his Sukoj-15 with the tactical registration number "008", then fires two air-to-air missiles of the type "Kaliningrad K-8" at the Korean Jumbo and shoots it down!
... in his Sukoj-15 with the tactical registration number "008", KAL 007 then fires two air-to-air missiles of the type "Kaliningrad K-8"!
There are no survivors.
To what extent the 45-year-old Korean pilot of the airliner, Captain Chun Byung-In ...
... was inaugurated, the "game" of the Americans "played along" and intentionally "flew away" in order to give the Americans the opportunity to carry out their espionage measurements, the public will probably never know.
In one of the best-monitored airspaces in the world (this is where the USA and the USSR are closest together!), however, a “random flight” over 1,500 kilometers seems highly unrealistic!
In addition, Captain Chun was an extremely experienced pilot, he had 10,625 flight hours on the Boeing 747 and had flown the route 29 times before.
The Soviet Union will later officially apologize to the relatives of the victims and pay compensation to the bereaved - nevertheless it seems clear that the 269 dead were victims of an inhuman trans-Pacific "game of chess" during the Cold War.
On September 1, 1983, 269 people pay with their lives to play the trans-Pacific chess game during the Cold War!
This Boeing 747 of "Korean Airlines", flight no. "KAL 007" ...
... on a flight from Anchorage (Canada) to Seoul violated Soviet airspace and strangely enough passed a Russian military base on Kamchatka.
After about an hour of observation, the 747 is shot down over international waters west of Sakhalin Island, where it previously violated the airspace of the USSR a second time.
Among the victims is an aspiring well-known US MP: Democratic Congressman Larry P. McDonald, cousin of legendary US General George Patton ...:
What US President Ronald Reagan and the South Korean government (eagerly seconded by the German government!) immediately branded as “evidence of Soviet barbarism” actually has a highly mysterious background - because the “Korean Air” jumbo was notalone that night!
The Soviet side, here Air Marshal Nikolaj Ogarkov ...
… on the other hand, calls KAL 007 during a specially convened press conference (unusual enough at the time!) a “spy plane that does not react to warning shots and therefore represented a legitimate target”.
And the Soviets are right!
The US secretly tested the Soviet Union's air defenses that night - and KAL 007 was the decoy!
The truth about the incident only came to light bit by bit ...:
In fact, US special reconnaissance aircraft of the type "RC-135", the military version of the Boeing 707, crossed in that night - the silhouette very similar to the 747 ...
... the flight path of KAL 007 in its radar shadow, wie die nachfolgende Karte der Kurse beider Flugzeuge zeigt...:
From the published Soviet radio messages it is clear that both the KAL-Jumbo and the RC-135 were detected by the Russian radar, which for a short time led to hopeless confusion of the Soviet radar observers, whether one or two airspace violators were involved.
The special reconnaissance aircraft RC 135 was commissioned to measure the Soviet fire control radar.
But since it is not activated in peacetime, the "electronic reconnaissance planes" have to stimulate the opposing radar stations with fake attacks.
Not only are the working frequencies of the radar systems determined, but above all their response times are tested.
The Korean jet took on this “stimulation”.
A quarter of an hour before the launch, a Soviet Sukhoj 15 interceptor ...
... radioed the Korean pilot several requests to land in the USSR. The Korean plane ignores these requests!
Even when the hunter fired warning shots, KAL 007 was stubborn and apparently flies on undeterred.
Only after this Colonel Gerasimenko...
... that night the duty officer of the 41st fighter squadron (Sokol base, Kamschatka) gives the order to shoot down the plane, after having a talk with the commanding officer, Lieutenant General Anatoly Kornukow ...
Before confirming the launch order, General Kornukow held a consultation with Air Marshal Ogarkov ...
... at Moscow!
Major Gennadij Nikolajewitsch Ossipowitsch…
... in his Sukoj-15 with the tactical registration number "008", then fires two air-to-air missiles of the type "Kaliningrad K-8" at the Korean Jumbo and shoots it down!
... in his Sukoj-15 with the tactical registration number "008", KAL 007 then fires two air-to-air missiles of the type "Kaliningrad K-8"!
There are no survivors.
To what extent the 45-year-old Korean pilot of the airliner, Captain Chun Byung-In ...
... was inaugurated, the "game" of the Americans "played along" and intentionally "flew away" in order to give the Americans the opportunity to carry out their espionage measurements, the public will probably never know.
In one of the best-monitored airspaces in the world (this is where the USA and the USSR are closest together!), however, a “random flight” over 1,500 kilometers seems highly unrealistic!
In addition, Captain Chun was an extremely experienced pilot, he had 10,625 flight hours on the Boeing 747 and had flown the route 29 times before.
The Soviet Union will later officially apologize to the relatives of the victims and pay compensation to the bereaved - nevertheless it seems clear that the 269 dead were victims of an inhuman trans-Pacific "game of chess" during the Cold War.
