Changes

*As a result of the perceived cause of KAL 007's flight deviation ([[Inertial Navigation System]]), President Reagan authorized the hitherto strictly military use of the [[Global Positioning System]] (GPS) for civilian use. The GPS is now used extensively for civilian passenger flights and for vehicular land travel.  

*As a result of the perceived cause of KAL 007's flight deviation ([[Inertial Navigation System]]), President Reagan authorized the hitherto strictly military use of the [[Global Positioning System]] (GPS) for civilian use. The GPS is now used extensively for civilian passenger flights and for vehicular land travel.  

* The immortal words of former UN Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick's deputy Charles Lichenstein. Shortly after the Soviet Union shot down KAL 007, legislatures in New York and New Jersey denied Soviet aircraft landing rights. Some at the UN raised the question of whether that body should remove from the United States. And Lichenstein, fed up and in no mood for "diplomacy," said, "We will put no impediment in your way. The members of the US mission to the United Nations will be down at the dockside waving you a fond farewell as you sail off into the sunset."

* '''The immortal words of former UN Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick's deputy Charles Lichenstein''': Shortly after the Soviet Union shot down KAL 007, legislatures in New York and New Jersey denied Soviet aircraft landing rights. Some at the UN raised the question of whether that body should remove from the United States. And Lichenstein, fed up and in no mood for "diplomacy," said, "We will put no impediment in your way. The members of the US mission to the United Nations will be down at the dockside waving you a fond farewell as you sail off into the sunset."

Korean Airlines Flight 007 was a victim of the Cold War, a flight that had possibly simply gone off course in the wrong place and at the wrong time.  Careless discrepancies 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 possibly simply gone off course in the wrong place and at the wrong time.  Careless discrepancies by the plane's pilot combined with Soviet paranoia helped to end, reportedly, the lives of 269 passengers and crew.

==Passenger and Crew Breakdown ==

==Passenger and Crew Breakdown ==