Saturday, July 24, 2004

Super70s.com: Korean Airliner Shot Down By Soviets: " Korean Airliner Shot Down By Soviets
By Patrick Mondout
On April 20, 1978 Korean Air Flight 902 crossing the Atlantic from Paris to Seoul strayed over Soviet territory and was fired upon by a Su-15 fighter. One of the two missiles exploded near the left wing and two of the 97 passengers were killed in the resulting rapid decompression. The Boeing 707 dove into the clouds and lost the Su-15 and made an emergency landing on the frozen lake of Korpij�rvi some 280 miles south of Murmansk"





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