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Episode 106: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 Shootdown (대한항공 007편 격추 사건)
A Boeing 747 full of sleeping passengers is flying through the dark toward Seoul. The crew thinks everything is normal. They don't know they're hundreds of kilometers off course, over some of the most heavily guarded military territory on Earth. Behind them is a Soviet fighter pilot. He'd later say he was close enough to see two rows of windows. Then he gets the order to fire. Korean Air Lines Flight 007 Shootdown (대한항공 007편 격추 사건) · 1983-09-01 · Sea of Japan near Moneron Island, off Sakhalin, Soviet Union (flight from New York JFK via Anchorage to Seoul Gimpo)
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