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Contrary to the Interceptor pilot's report that "the target is destroyed", the Russian Federation handover of the original real-time communications of the shootdown show horrified Soviet commanders viewing, and relating what they are viewing, KAL 007 leveling out at 5,000 meters (at 18.31) and continuing at that altitude for over 4 minutes (18:35), turning north, approaching tiny Moneron Island (4 1/2 miles by 3 1/2miles), the only island in the whole Tatar straits, and then making a spiral descent.

Contrary to the Interceptor pilot's report that "the target is destroyed", the Russian Federation handover of the original real-time communications of the shootdown show horrified Soviet commanders viewing, and relating what they are viewing, KAL 007 leveling out at 5,000 meters (at 18.31) and continuing at that altitude for over 4 minutes (18:35), turning north, approaching tiny Moneron Island (4 1/2 miles by 3 1/2miles), the only island in the whole Tatar straits, and then making a spiral descent.

''':General Anatoly Kornukov (Commander of Sokol Airbase on Sakhalin'''):[[Image:Kornukov.jpg|Gen. Anatoly Kornukov. Commander of Sokol Air Base, Sakhalin, from which Maj. Gennadie Osipovich in his Su-15 interceptor took off. Later promoted Commander of Russian Air Force|right|thumb|250px]]

 

General Anatoly Kornukov, Commander of Sokol Airbase on Sakhalin:[[Image:Kornukov.jpg|Gen. Anatoly Kornukov. Commander of Sokol Air Base, Sakhalin, from which Maj. Gennadie Osipovich in his Su-15 interceptor took off. Later promoted Commander of Russian Air Force|right|thumb|250px]]"Well, I understand, I do not understand the result, why is the target flying?  Missiles were fired.  Why is the target flying?  [obscenities] Well, what is happening?"

'''::''"Well, I understand, I do not understand the result, why is the target flying?  Missiles were fired.  Why is the target flying?  [obscenities] Well, what is happening?"'''''

 

 

 

Debriefed former Soviet military men who had served on the Soviet maritime across from Sakhalin and Moneron and who had immigrated to Israel reported that the Soviet radar stations, including those at Komsomolsk-na-Amura and Edinka, tracked KAL 007 in its spiral descent until it was 1,000 feet above sea level (the point at which Soviet radar could not capture the aircraft due to curvature of the earth). This information was conveyed to the Minority Staff (Republican) under Senator Jesse Helms of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations which issued in its Republican Staff Report [draft] of 1991 <ref>http://www.rescue007.org/republican_staff_study.htm][http://www.rescue007.org/faq.htm#8</ref> this concluding statement - <blockquote>

Debriefed former Soviet military men who had served on the Soviet maritime across from Sakhalin and Moneron and who had immigrated to Israel reported that the Soviet radar stations, including those at Komsomolsk-na-Amura and Edinka, tracked KAL 007 in its spiral descent until it was 1,000 feet above sea level (the point at which Soviet radar could not capture the aircraft due to curvature of the earth). This information was conveyed to the Minority Staff (Republican) under Senator Jesse Helms of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations which issued in its Republican Staff Report [draft] of 1991 <ref>http://www.rescue007.org/republican_staff_study.htm][http://www.rescue007.org/faq.htm#8</ref> this concluding statement - <blockquote>