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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
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Subject: Re: KAL 007
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Date: Fri, 19-Sep-86 17:24:19 EDT
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There is an article in the current Atlantic Monthly magazine with what appears
to be the most comphrensive account of KAL007 flight to date.  It is quite
critical of the Reagan administration's handling of the incident.

Some tidbits: The KAL captain revised the flight plan to save fuel.
The INS was programmed from keyboard.  Keyboarding errors are common.
Human factors, especially prevalent in KAL crews, could have easily
prevented the error from being discovered in time.  Visibility at the
shoot-down site was poor, and the KAL crew probabaly wasn't watching
outside the windows much anyway, remember these are long and boring
flights, not like penetrating LAX TAC.  The author viewed NSA radar tapes,
the Russians never made any radar tapes available, probabaly don't have
any.  The Russians have shot down some of their own airliners, with heavy
loss of life, such incidents are as well publicized as their 1957 nuke accident.

Go ahead and read the article.