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From: lepreau@utah-cs.UUCP (Jay Lepreau)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics
Subject: Re: Korean Jet
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Date: Mon, 5-Sep-83 15:02:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  5 15:02:21 1983
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In today's paper the U.S. admits having a "spy" plane in the vicinity
(75 miles) of the 747.  From the description it sounds as if it were in
the area for quite a while (discussion of crossing the 747's path 300
miles ahead, etc).   The U.S. officials were busy reassuring everyone
that the spy planbe was never in Soviet air space.  Fine.  What I want
to know is why the hell the U.S. plane, and grond control, etc,
apparently didn't make any effort to notify the KAL jet that it was over
Soviet airspace and being shadowed by half-a-dozen Soviet fighters for
two hours??