The most infamous instance occurred in 1983: Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a jumbo jet carrying 269 people, was gunned down by a Sukhoi Su-15 fighter jet after straying into Soviet airspace.

Tragedy on the way home. On Sept. 1, 1983, a civilian B-747 flying with registration HL7442 as Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KAL 007, KE 007) was shot down by Soviet fighters over the Sea of Japan ...

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 ...

This was last night at Kennedy Airport and passengers were arriving for Korean Airlines Flight 007 to Seoul. The flight that left Kennedy Tuesday night was blown up by the Russians. As individual ...

This almost comic juxtaposition of pop, and politics formed the backdrop against which Korean Airlines flight 7 took to the skies above New York on August 31st. On this night, in an atmosphere ...

On the second anniversary of the shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 on Sept. 1, 1983, it seemed clearer than ever that the truth of this terrible event, in which 269 lives were lost ...

There's a handful of military planes that, no matter the specifics of their backstory, will always be defined by one incident that secured its place in history books for the rest of time.