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From: stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Commercial aviation overflights
Message-ID: <620@ihuxr.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Sep-83 16:44:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  8 16:44:33 1983
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There is a commercial flight lane that passes almost directly over the
center of Cuba.  It is used by planes of many nations, as well as private
aircraft.  There has never been an incident as long as aircraft have stayed
within the specified lane.  There have been a few small-craft shot down that
strayed outside the flight lane.  The lane is well marked on aviation maps,
and the Cuban government has from time-to-time reiterated its agreement
with the presence of the specified flight path.

(my wife used to work for u.s. intelligence specializing in the area around
that flight path through Cuba. )

don stanwyck : 312-979-6667 : ihnp4!ihuxr!stanwyck

p.s.  I used to work for u.s. intelligence in the far east, and from my
	experiance i do not believe for a minute that the KAL flight had
	any u.s. intelligence gear aboard.  it may have had ROK gear on it,
	though i doubt it.  i think it was either pilot error, machine error
	(hardware, of course!), or possibly the KAl pilot trying to save $$
	(i.e. fuel) by going a shorter route to Seoul.