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The downing of Flight 007: 30 years later, a Cold War tragedy still seems surreal
On a sultry August night in 1983 at New York’s JFK airport, Alice Ephraimson-Abt, a brilliant, 23-year-old blue-eyed blonde, was about to board Korean Air Lines Flight 007 for Seoul, South Korea ...
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40 Years from the Cold War KAL 007 Flight Tragedy
The shooting down of a Boeing 747, with 269 passengers on board ... But perhaps it is worth reviewing how the tragedy of flight KAL 007 occurred. Since the episode shocked the world and ...
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There Are Many Parallels Between The MH17 Crash And When Russia Shot Down A Civilian Airliner In 1983
In fact, this situation bears eerie parallels to when the Soviet Union accidentally shot down a passenger plane on Sep. 1, 1983. Korean Air Lines flight 007 from New York to Seoul (after refueling ...
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20 YEARS LATER, QUESTIONS ABOUT FLIGHT 007 LINGER
suffered a streak of major disasters after KAL Flight 007, killing hundreds of passengers and becoming a pariah of the airline industry. But in 2000, with the help of a retired Delta Air Lines ...
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KAL JET ATTACKED WITHOUT WARNING 1983 COCKPIT TAPE RELEASED
“Korean Air 007, I can’t read, I can’t read you,” the voice from Tokyo says. “Move to one-zero.” Five seconds later the tape ended, and the plane, with 269 passengers on ...