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==The Recovery of KAL 007's Black Box==

==The Recovery of KAL 007's Black Box==

[[Korean Airlines Flight 007]] was a Boeing 747 shot down by the Soviets on Sept. 1, 1983 just west of the Soviet territory of Sakhalin Island off the Siberian Maritime. There were 269 passengers and crew aboard. For over 10 years the Soviets denied having retrieved the Black Box but on January 8, 1993, [[Boris Yeltsin]], under  pressure from Senator [[Jesse Helms]] of the Committee on Foreign Relations, handed the Cockpit Voice Recorder and the Digital Flight Data Recorder tapes from the Black Box to the International Civil Aviation Organization of the United Nations. Here are the combined Cockpit Voice Recorder and Flight Data Recorder transcripts chronicalling the first minute and 44 seconds of the flight of KAL 007 after missile detonation [http://www.rescue007.org/faq.htm#5]

[[Korean Airlines Flight 007]] was a Boeing 747 shot down by the Soviets on Sept. 1, 1983 just west of the Soviet territory of Sakhalin Island off the Siberian Maritime. There were 269 passengers and crew aboard. For over 10 years the Soviets denied having retrieved the Black Box but on January 8, 1993, [[Boris Yeltsin]], under  pressure from Senator [[Jesse Helms]] of the Committee on Foreign Relations, handed the Cockpit Voice Recorder and the Digital Flight Data Recorder tapes from the Black Box to the International Civil Aviation Organization of the United Nations. Here are the combined Cockpit Voice Recorder and Flight Data Recorder transcripts chronicalling the first minute and 44 seconds of the flight of KAL 007 after missile detonation.<ref>http://www.rescue007.org/faq.htm#5</ref>

==See Also==

==See Also==

*[http://www.rescue007.org/faq.htm#4] [http://www.rescue007.org/] The website of the International Committee for the Rescue of KAL 007 Survivors and the reliability of KAL 007's recovered BlackBox tapes and their use in reconstructing the flight.

*[http://www.rescue007.org/faq.htm#4] [http://www.rescue007.org/] The website of the International Committee for the Rescue of KAL 007 Survivors and the reliability of KAL 007's recovered BlackBox tapes and their use in reconstructing the flight.

*[[How KAL 007 was Lost]]

*[[How KAL 007 was Lost]]