Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!csu-cs!denelcor!pocha From: pocha@denelcor.UUCP Newsgroups: net.aviation,net.followup Subject: KAL 747 Airline saga Message-ID: <134@denelcor.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Sep-83 09:00:06 EDT Article-I.D.: denelcor.134 Posted: Thu Sep 8 09:00:06 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Sep-83 06:22:12 EDT Lines: 65 The following is from US News and World Report. 09/12/83 Airborne Aggression: A Soviet Trademark. The downing of the South Korean airliner was only the latest and most extreme episode in a series of attacks by Soviet gunners on military and commercial planes over the last three decades. Other incidents:- 1950, April 8. American bomber with 20 on board disappears over Baltic. U.S. says plane was brought down by Soviets. 1951, Nov. 6. U.S. Navy plane lost over international waters off Siberia after Soviet planes fire on it. Crew of 10 missing. 1952, April 29. Soviets attack French airliner. Two of the passengers on the commercial flight injured. 1952, June 13. U.S. reconnaissance plane missing after interception by Soviet planes over Japan. 1952, July 16. Russian jets down unarmed Swedish military plane over international waters in the Baltic. Seven crewmen rescued. 1952, Oct. 7. U.S. bomber with crew of eight disappears over northern Japan after taking Soviet fire. 1953, March 10. U.S. Air Force jet fighter shot down by two Russian MiG's in Germany. No casualties. 1953, March 12. Soviet MiG's down British bomber over Elbe River Valley at the East-West frontier of Germany. Five crewmen die. 1953, March 15. U.S. reconnaissance plane attacked by MiG about 25 miles from Soviet border. Shots exchanged, but neither is hit. 1953, July 29. U.S. bomber shot down by MiG's over Sea of Japan. Sixteen crewmen killed. 1954, Jan. 22. U.S. reconnaissance plane over Yellow Sea attacked by eight MiG's. No casualties. 1954, March 12. Two U.S. military planes flying near Czechoslovak border on training flight attacked by MiG. Both land safely. 1954, June 3rd. Belgian transport carrying livestock fired upon over Yugoslavia by MiG fighter. One crew member killed, two injured. 1954, Sept. 4. U.S. Navy plane shot down by Soviet jets 30 miles off Siberian coast. One dead. 1954, Nov. 7. American reconnaissance plane shot down over northern Hokkaido, Japan. One American killed. 1955, May 10. Eight American fighter planes on patrol over international waters near North Korea attacked by MiG's. No casualties. 1955, May 22. U.S. Navy patrol bomber attacked by Soviet aircraft near St. Lawrence Island in Bering Sea. Seven in crew injured. 1958, June 27. Unarmed American military transport, diverted from its course by storm, shot down over Soviet Armenia. No deaths. 1958, Sept. 2. Seventeen Americans lose lives when C-130 transport aircraft is shot down in Soviet Armenia near Turkish border. 1958, Nov. 7. Soviet MiG's fire on U.S. Air Force reconnaissance jets over Baltic and Sea of Japan. 1959, June 16. U.S. Navy patrol plane attacked by Soviet-made MiG over Sea of Japan. One crewman wounded. 1960, May 1st. Russians down U.S. spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers. U-2 pilot captured, jailed. 1960, July 1st. American RB-47 shot down in Barents Sea near Kola Peninsula. Four of six on board die. 1963, Nov. 20th. Soviets down Iranian plane after it strays over Russian border and flies back into Iran. 1964, Jan. 28th. U.S. Air Force jet trainer shot down over East Germany. Three American deaths. 1964, March 10th. American bomber downed by Soviets after it strayed across East German frontier. No one was killed. 1978, April 20th. South Korean airliner flying from Paris to Seoul fired at when it crosses Soviet territory. Two passengers killed, 13 hurt. 1981, July Argentine cargo plane crashes after colliding with pursuing Soviet plane in Armenia. 1983, Sept. 1st. KAL flight 007 attacked disappears 3:38 a.m. Tokyo time. 269 people presumed dead. John Pocha