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On Sept. 1, 1983, a [[Sukhoi Su-15]] intercepter, piloted by Maj. Gennadie Osipovich, launched two Anab R-98 medium range air to air missiles damaging [[Korean Airlines Flight 007]] carrying 269 passengers and crew causing it to come down in the Tatar Straits in the vicinity Moneron Island just west of Sakhalin Island. It was thought that in the subsequent search operations the Cockpit Voice Recorder and the Digital Flight Data Recorder, both components of the "Black Box", were unrecovered, though suspicion at various times was directed at the both the U.S. and the Soviet Union. But it was the Soviet Union that recovered them, concealing this fact until in 1992 they were handed over to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) of the U.N. and deciphered. The following is the combined and coordinated tapes from both recorders, and provide a composite understanding of what went on in the cockpit of KAL 007 from the time of missile detonation at 18:26:02 GMT until one minute and 44 seconds later - the extent of the tapes returned with the Black Box to ICAO . The following transcripts include the following:

On Sept. 1, 1983, a [[Sukhoi Su-15]] intercepter, piloted by Maj. Gennadie Osipovich, launched two Anab R-98 medium range air to air missiles damaging [[Korean Airlines Flight 007]] carrying 269 passengers and crew causing it to come down in the Tatar Straits in the vicinity of Moneron Island just west of Sakhalin Island. It was thought that in the subsequent search operations the Cockpit Voice Recorder and the Digital Flight Data Recorder, both components of the "Black Box", were unrecovered, though suspicion at various times was directed at the both the U.S. and the Soviet Union. But it was the Soviet Union that recovered them, concealing this fact until in 1992 they were handed over to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) of the U.N. and deciphered. The following is the combined and coordinated tapes from both recorders, and provide a composite understanding of what went on in the cockpit of KAL 007 from the time of missile detonation at 18:26:02 GMT until one minute and 44 seconds later - the extent of the tapes returned with the Black Box to ICAO . The following transcripts include the following: