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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
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Subject: Re: Update on KAL007 tragedy?
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 13:48:54 EST
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> Can anyone sum up what is now believed to have happened?

It appears that:

	The Russkies were commencing a sensitive weapons test 
	in the area at the time of the incident.

	A US reconnaisance aircraft trying to monitor the test
	matched course with KAL007, hiding for a time in its 
	radar "shadow".

	KAL007's subsequent course took it into Soviet airspace
	and toward the test area.

	Soviet air defences reacted to the intrusion relatively late,
	considering the level of alert they should have been on.

	Soviet interceptors made contact with KAL007 only as it
	was about to exit Soviet airspace, and blew it away without
	having positively identified the aircraft, on orders from
	the commanders on the ground.

I have heard of no evidence to support either the assertion that
KAL007 was in fact a US spy flight, as the Soviets have suggested, 
nor the assertion that the Russki commanders knew they were shooting 
down a commercial, passenger aircraft, as some in the US have claimed.