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Line 545: − − Concerning Stacy (3 years old) and Noelle (5 years old) Grenfell, passengers aboard KAL 007, Senator Helms, who was on sister flight KAL 015 also on the way to Seoul, [[South Korea]], wrote: − − :''I’ll never forget that night when that plane was just beside ours at Anchorage airport with two little girls and their parents...I taught them, among other things, to say I love you in deaf language, and the last thing they did when they turned the corner was stick up their little hands and tell me they loved me.'' [http://www.rescue007.org/grenfells.htm]
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"One of the greatest tragedies of the Cold War," he wrote, "was the shoot-down of the Korean Airlines Flight 007 by the Armed Forces of what was then the Soviet Union on September 1, 1983. . . The KAL-007 tragedy was one of the most tense incidences of the entire Cold War. However, now that relations between our two nations have improved substantially, I believe that it is time to resolve the mysteries surrounding this event. Clearing the air on this issue could help further to improve relations [http://www.rescue007.org/helms_letter.htm]." At about the same time a military memo boasting of the secret would make it's way into Yeltsin's hands, leading to the discovery of the black boxes as well as the top secret reports about them by the Soviet Defense Ministry. Yeltsin would ultimately respond on January 8, 1993 by handing over to the International Civil Aviation Organization what the Russians had for so many years denied possessing: the tapes of the KAL 007's "Black Box" (its Digital Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder). [http://web.archive.org/web/20010919141246/www.insightmag.com/archive/200104171.shtml][http://www.jamesoberg.com/russian/kal007.html]
"One of the greatest tragedies of the Cold War," he wrote, "was the shoot-down of the Korean Airlines Flight 007 by the Armed Forces of what was then the Soviet Union on September 1, 1983. . . The KAL-007 tragedy was one of the most tense incidences of the entire Cold War. However, now that relations between our two nations have improved substantially, I believe that it is time to resolve the mysteries surrounding this event. Clearing the air on this issue could help further to improve relations [http://www.rescue007.org/helms_letter.htm]." At about the same time a military memo boasting of the secret would make it's way into Yeltsin's hands, leading to the discovery of the black boxes as well as the top secret reports about them by the Soviet Defense Ministry. Yeltsin would ultimately respond on January 8, 1993 by handing over to the International Civil Aviation Organization what the Russians had for so many years denied possessing: the tapes of the KAL 007's "Black Box" (its Digital Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder). [http://web.archive.org/web/20010919141246/www.insightmag.com/archive/200104171.shtml][http://www.jamesoberg.com/russian/kal007.html]
Korean Airlines Flight 007 was a victim of the Cold War, a flight that had simply gone off course in the wrong place and at the wrong time. A minor careless discrepancy by the plane's pilot combined with Soviet paranoia helped to end the lives of 269 passengers and crew.
Korean Airlines Flight 007 was a victim of the Cold War, a flight that had simply gone off course in the wrong place and at the wrong time. A minor careless discrepancy by the plane's pilot combined with Soviet paranoia helped to end the lives of 269 passengers and crew.