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When KAL 007 re-entered Soviet airspace, this time over Sakhalin Island, fighters were again scrambled with orders to "destroy the target." The Commander of the Soviet Far East District Air Defense Forces, General Valeri Kamensky,<ref>[http://www.rescue007.org/kaminski.htm Rescue 007: Kamenski Interview]</ref> was adament that KAL 007 was to be destroyed even over neutral waters but only after positive identification showed it not to be a passenger plane. His subordinate, General Anatoli Kornukov, commander of Sokol Air base, was adament that there was no need to make positive identification as "the intruder" had already flown over Kamchatka.
When KAL 007 re-entered Soviet airspace, this time over Sakhalin Island, fighters were again scrambled with orders to "destroy the target." The Commander of the Soviet Far East District Air Defense Forces, General Valeri Kamensky,<ref>[http://www.rescue007.org/kaminski.htm Rescue 007: Kamenski Interview]</ref> was adament that KAL 007 was to be destroyed even over neutral waters but only after positive identification showed it not to be a passenger plane. His subordinate, General Anatoli Kornukov, commander of Sokol Air base, was adament that there was no need to make positive identification as "the intruder" had already flown over Kamchatka.
[[Image:Kornukov2.gif|General Anatolie Kornukov|left|thumb|150px]]
[[Image:Osipovich1983.jpg|Maj. Gennadie Osipovich (1983)|left|thumb|150px]]
:General Kornukov (to Military District Headquarters-Gen. Kamenski): (5:47)
:General Kornukov (to Military District Headquarters-Gen. Kamenski): (5:47)
::''"...simply destroy [it] even if it is over neutral waters? Are the orders to destroy it over neutral waters? Oh, well."''
::''"...simply destroy [it] even if it is over neutral waters? Are the orders to destroy it over neutral waters? Oh, well."''