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At 18:26 GMT two air-to-air missiles from an [[Sukhoi Su-15|Su-15 Flagon]] piloted by Major Gennadi Osipovich were fired at the jumbo jet,<ref>See [http://www.rescue007.org/shootdown.htm Rescue 007:The Shootdown] for the combined U.S. electronic intercept and Soviet military communications of the actual shoot-down with photos of key personnel.</ref> causing it to spiral down from 35,000 feet and after a 12 minute descent crash into the sea near Moneron Island.

At 18:26 GMT two air-to-air missiles from an [[Sukhoi Su-15|Su-15 Flagon]] piloted by Major Gennadi Osipovich were fired at the jumbo jet,<ref>See [http://www.rescue007.org/shootdown.htm Rescue 007:The Shootdown] for the combined U.S. electronic intercept and Soviet military communications of the actual shoot-down with photos of key personnel.</ref> causing it to spiral down from 35,000 feet and after a 12-minute descent crash into the sea near Moneron Island.

==Flight Data Recorder Chart showing the regaining of control of KAL 007==

==Flight Data Recorder Chart showing the regaining of control of KAL 007==

This ICAO graphing of the deciphered Digital Flight Data Recorder of KAL 007's first minute and 44 seconds of post attack flight shows the regaining of control by Capt Chun. Following the '''"altitude"''' and '''"pitch"''' lines, Captain Chun's regaining control is evident through the immediate 113 second arc upward and dive downward, then the  10 second pull-up taking KAL 007 to pre missile attack altitude, and then the beginning gradual descent. Note the sharp decrease in '''"acceleration"''' as Capt. Chun levels off from the pull up - belying the Media descriptions that KAL 007 uncontrollably "plunged", "dived", "hurtled down", "cartwheeled", etc., to it's destruction after it was hit.

This ICAO graphing of the deciphered Digital Flight Data Recorder of KAL 007's first minute and 44 seconds of post attack flight shows the regaining of control by Capt Chun. Following the '''"altitude"''' and '''"pitch"''' lines, Captain Chun's regaining control is evident through the immediate 113 second arc upward and dive downward, then the  10 second pull-up taking KAL 007 to pre missile attack altitude, and then the beginning gradual descent. Note the sharp decrease in '''"acceleration"''' as Capt. Chun levels off from the pull up - belying the Media descriptions that KAL 007 uncontrollably "plunged", "dived", "hurtled down", "cartwheeled", etc., to its destruction after it was hit.

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There has always been a question concerning the capability, and the actualization of that capability, of the RC-135 to become aware of KAL 007 as it penetrated into Soviet air space and to warn it. During the civil litigation for damages to the families of the victims of the shoot-down, Chief Justice of the District Court of Washington, D.C., Aubrey Robinson, ruled out legal recourse to finding out on grounds that it would endanger National Security. He allowed only, on April 18, 1984, questions to the military, "but only in respect to uncovering the legal duty [of the military] to warn or advise civilian aircraft" (KAL 007: The Cover-Up, David E. Pearson,Summit Books, London, New York, 1987, pg. 305)

There has always been a question concerning the capability, and the actualization of that capability, of the RC-135 to become aware of KAL 007 as it penetrated into Soviet air space and to warn it. During the civil litigation for damages to the families of the victims of the shoot-down, Chief Justice of the District Court of Washington, D.C., Aubrey Robinson, ruled out legal recourse to finding out on grounds that it would endanger National Security. He allowed only, on April 18, 1984, questions to the military, "but only in respect to uncovering the legal duty [of the military] to warn or advise civilian aircraft" (KAL 007: The Cover-Up, David E. Pearson,Summit Books, London, New York, 1987, pg. 305)

.The RC-135 was manufactured by Boeing, and is a military variant of the civilian 707 passenger jet.  Configured in several versions, this aircraft was used to conduct airborne surveillance from the 1960's through to the mid-1990's, and many were on routine patrols in the western Pacific Ocean monitoring Soviet activity.   

.The RC-135 was manufactured by Boeing, and is a military variant of the civilian 707 passenger jet.  Configured in several versions, this aircraft was used to conduct airborne surveillance from the 1960s through to the mid-1990s, and many were on routine patrols in the western Pacific Ocean monitoring Soviet activity.   

Seymour Hersh, writing in his book ''The Target is Destroyed'', mentioned what was called "psychological operations" (PSYOPS) programs carried out by the United States against the Soviets.  These programs included massive naval exercises and simulated attacks carried out in proximity of critical Soviet bases.  This, combined with the [[Strategic Defense Initiative]] (SDI) initiated by President Reagan, Cold War tensions rose to high levels. Just a scant four weeks from the KAL 007 disaster, operation ''Able Archer'' was conducted by the United States and its European allies; a reflection seen on Soviet radars was interpreted by many to be an actual first strike by intercontinental ballistic missiles.  Only the interpretation by a Soviet general that it was in reality a computer glitch from a malfunctioning satellite prevented a possible nuclear war.

Seymour Hersh, writing in his book ''The Target is Destroyed'', mentioned what was called "psychological operations" (PSYOPS) programs carried out by the United States against the Soviets.  These programs included massive naval exercises and simulated attacks carried out in proximity of critical Soviet bases.  This, combined with the [[Strategic Defense Initiative]] (SDI) initiated by President Reagan, Cold War tensions rose to high levels. Just a scant four weeks from the KAL 007 disaster, operation ''Able Archer'' was conducted by the United States and its European allies; a reflection seen on Soviet radars was interpreted by many to be an actual first strike by intercontinental ballistic missiles.  Only the interpretation by a Soviet general that it was in reality a computer glitch from a malfunctioning satellite prevented a possible nuclear war.

The main Soviet salvage ship was the '''Mikhail Mirchink ''' (pictured above). Designated an S.P.D., Self Propelled Drill ship, the Mirchink was a Swedish built vessel having the great advantage of being able, thanks to its gyros, to stabilize itself dynamically over one spot, regardless of wind or waves.The Mirchink had been positioned mainly within Soviet waters about eleven nautical miles north of Moneron. More than  nineteen underwater operations had been performed from her decks. The divers working off the Mirchink had been flown, immediately after the shootdown, by helicopter from their deep-sea assignment off the shores of Murmansk on the Kola Peninsula in northwest Russia and then by transport to the port of Kholmsk on the island of Sakhalin for their “Flight 007” assignment.

The main Soviet salvage ship was the '''Mikhail Mirchink ''' (pictured above). Designated an S.P.D., Self Propelled Drill ship, the Mirchink was a Swedish built vessel having the great advantage of being able, thanks to its gyros, to stabilize itself dynamically over one spot, regardless of wind or waves.The Mirchink had been positioned mainly within Soviet waters about eleven nautical miles north of Moneron. More than  nineteen underwater operations had been performed from her decks. The divers working off the Mirchink had been flown, immediately after the shootdown, by helicopter from their deep-sea assignment off the shores of Murmansk on the Kola Peninsula in northwest Russia and then by transport to the port of Kholmsk on the island of Sakhalin for their “Flight 007” assignment.

The '''Hydronaut (Gidronaut''') , was a combined search and fishing boat, which was mother ship to two small two-man submersibles, the Tinro 2 and the Okeanolog. It's divers had also been hastily flown, this time from Crimean Sevestapol on the Black Sea shores of the Ukraine. The Tinro 2 made most of the dives. Its designer and commander was Capt. Mikhail Girs (see below).

The '''Hydronaut (Gidronaut'''), was a combined search and fishing boat, which was mother ship to two small two-man submersibles, the Tinro 2 and the Okeanolog. It's divers had also been hastily flown, this time from Crimean Sevestapol on the Black Sea shores of the Ukraine. The Tinro 2 made most of the dives. Its designer and commander was Capt. Mikhail Girs (see below).

The '''Georgi Kozmin''' was the third ship but had been working before the two civilian manned ships. It had  two manned and two unmanned submersibles and its divers were all military. The Georgi Kozmin  had come from Soviet Gavan, the main naval port across the Tatar Straits from Sakhalin. It was understood by civilian Soviet divers that anomalies such as missing bodies and luggage, could have been caused by these military divers working before them. See the latest report (Oct. 1, 2000) from one of the divers who visited KAL 007 at the bottom shortly after the shootdown and who found no bodies and no luggage <ref>http://www.royfc.com/news/oct/0001oct01.html</ref>

The '''Georgi Kozmin''' was the third ship but had been working before the two civilian manned ships. It had  two manned and two unmanned submersibles and its divers were all military. The Georgi Kozmin  had come from Soviet Gavan, the main naval port across the Tatar Straits from Sakhalin. It was understood by civilian Soviet divers that anomalies such as missing bodies and luggage, could have been caused by these military divers working before them. See the latest report (Oct. 1, 2000) from one of the divers who visited KAL 007 at the bottom shortly after the shootdown and who found no bodies and no luggage <ref>http://www.royfc.com/news/oct/0001oct01.html</ref>

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'''The Wind Tunnel Theory:''' Lieutenant General Valeri Kamenski, Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force and formerly Chief of Staff of the Soviet Far East Military District Air Defense Force, the strategic commander of the shootdown, indicating in a interview (Facti I Kommentari [Ukrainian weekly], March 15, 2001) that what happened to the bodies of the crew and passengers of KAL 007 still constitutes a mystery, suggested a third possible explanation.  

'''The Wind Tunnel Theory:''' Lieutenant General Valeri Kamenski, Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force and formerly Chief of Staff of the Soviet Far East Military District Air Defense Force, the strategic commander of the shootdown, indicating in an interview (Facti I Kommentari [Ukrainian weekly], March 15, 2001) that what happened to the bodies of the crew and passengers of KAL 007 still constitutes a mystery, suggested a third possible explanation.  

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Reports had come in to Avraham Shifrin, Director of the Research Centre for Prisons, Psych-Prisons, and Forced Labor Concentration Camps of the USSR, charged with the debriefing, through the Jewish Agency, of former military men who were immigrating to Israel in the early 1990's that KAL 007 had been tracked by Soviet radar on the Siberian Maritime and had made what Soviet officers believed to be a safe [[Water Ditching]] off Moneron Island. (For a subsequent interview of one of the soldiers from a Soviet radar station that had tracked KAL 007 to what was believed to have been a safe water landing, see [[A Tracking of KAL 007 to Water: An Interview]]). Subsequent reports coming into the Research Centre from Russia itself indicated that the passengers and crew were abducted from the crippled and downed airliner, and the aircraft sunk and exploded under water with its wreckage scattered to simulate a plane having fallen from the skies. The appearance of secondary placement of the wreckage of KAL 007 was confirmed by some of the divers' reports:

Reports had come in to Avraham Shifrin, Director of the Research Centre for Prisons, Psych-Prisons, and Forced Labor Concentration Camps of the USSR, charged with the debriefing, through the Jewish Agency, of former military men who were immigrating to Israel in the early 1990s that KAL 007 had been tracked by Soviet radar on the Siberian Maritime and had made what Soviet officers believed to be a safe [[Water Ditching]] off Moneron Island. (For a subsequent interview of one of the soldiers from a Soviet radar station that had tracked KAL 007 to what was believed to have been a safe water landing, see [[A Tracking of KAL 007 to Water: An Interview]]). Subsequent reports coming into the Research Centre from Russia itself indicated that the passengers and crew were abducted from the crippled and downed airliner, and the aircraft sunk and exploded under water with its wreckage scattered to simulate a plane having fallen from the skies. The appearance of secondary placement of the wreckage of KAL 007 was confirmed by some of the divers' reports:

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Please provide detailed information on the fate of U.S. Congressman [[Larry McDonald]].

Please provide detailed information on the fate of U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald.

# How many KAL-007 family members and crew are being held in Soviet camps?

# How many KAL-007 family members and crew are being held in Soviet camps?

# Please provide a detailed list of the camps containing live passengers and crew, together with a map showing their location

# Please provide a detailed list of the camps containing live passengers and crew, together with a map showing their location

*[[Jesse Helms]]

*[[Jesse Helms]]

*[[Jesse Helms: A Tribute]]

*[[Jesse Helms: A Tribute]]

*[[History Channel Documentary on KAL 007: a critical review]] A study in Media misrepresentation

*[[History Channel Documentary on KAL 007: a critical review]] A study in Media misrepresentation

*[[Miracle on the Hudson and KAL 007]]

*[[Miracle on the Hudson and KAL 007]]

*[[Wikipedia prejudice and KAL 007]]

*[[Wikipedia prejudice and KAL 007]]

*[[Anatoly Kornukov]]

*[[Anatoly Kornukov]]

*''[[The Zero Option]]'' A 2009 novel based partly on the findings of the International Committee for the Rescue of KAL 007 Survivors [http://www.rescue007.org/] - the tracking and rescue of Congressman [[Larry McDonald]]

*''[[The Zero Option]]'' A 2009 novel based partly on the findings of the International Committee for the Rescue of KAL 007 Survivors [http://www.rescue007.org/] - the tracking and rescue of Congressman Larry McDonald

*[[Moneron Island]]

*[[Moneron Island]]

*[[Sakhalin]]

*[[Sakhalin]]