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===Timeline: Interception. Shootdown, and Rescue Missions===

===Timeline: Interception. Shootdown, and Rescue Missions===

'''18:55 GMT''' - Second SAR mission: in addition to the border guards and helicopters, civilian ships "near" Moneron were sent to Moneron itself. General Strogov (Deputy Commander of Far East Military District): "The border guards. What ships do we have near Moneron Island, if they are civilian. send [them] there immediately."<ref>ICAO, '93, Information Papes No. 1., pages 95,96</ref></span>

'''18:55 GMT''' - Second SAR mission: in addition to the border guards and helicopters, civilian ships "near" Moneron were sent to Moneron itself. General Strogov (Deputy Commander of Far East Military District): "The border guards. What ships do we have near Moneron Island, if they are civilian. send [them] there immediately."<ref>ICAO, '93, Information Papes No. 1., pages 95,96</ref></span>

==Flight Data Recorder Chart showing the regaining of control of KAL 007==

==Flight Data Recorder Chart showing the regaining of control of KAL 007==

'''10. Contrary to the statement of interceptor pilot that his missile had taken off the left wing of KAL 007, his missile had in fact missed, and the left wing was intact (all engines normal, noted ability to maneuver, high frequency broadcast made after attack using HF antenna 1. located on tip of left wing)'''

'''10. Contrary to the statement of interceptor pilot that his missile had taken off the left wing of KAL 007, his missile had in fact missed, and the left wing was intact (all engines normal, noted ability to maneuver, high frequency broadcast made after attack using HF antenna 1. located on tip of left wing)'''

==The Mystery of the Missing Minutes Solved==

==The Mystery of the Missing Minutes Solved==

'''Gerasimenko (18:34'''):  Affirmative, turning left, right, apparently it is descending.

'''Gerasimenko (18:34'''):  Affirmative, turning left, right, apparently it is descending.

</blockquote> "The last plotted radar position of the target was 18:35 hours at 5,000 meters." (ICAO 1993, pg. 53, para. 2.15.8)

</blockquote> "The last plotted radar position of the target was 18:35 hours at 5,000 meters." (ICAO 1993, pg. 53, para. 2.15.8)

==Soviet Harassment of US Search and Rescue Efforts==

==Soviet Harassment of US Search and Rescue Efforts==

[[Image:Soviet boats stalking.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Petropavlovsk & Narragansett.  Sea of Japan.  The fleet tug USNS Narragansett (T-ATF-167) is shadowed by the Soviet Kara class guided missile cruiser Petropavlovsk (565) during salvage operations for downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007.  Official U.S. Navy photo by PH2 Paul Soutar (Released)]]

[[Image:Soviet boats stalking.jpg|left|thumb|400px|Petropavlovsk & Narragansett.  Sea of Japan.  The fleet tug USNS Narragansett (T-ATF-167) is shadowed by the Soviet Kara class guided missile cruiser Petropavlovsk (565) during salvage operations for downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007.  Official U.S. Navy photo by PH2 Paul Soutar (Released)]]

[[Image:Soviet destroyer.jpg|27 September - The Kashin class destroyer no. 660 interfered with the flight of a U.S. Navy helicopter. Radar lock-ons of U.S. Navy ships by the Kara class guided missile cruiser Petropavlovsk and the Kashin class destroyer Odarennyy.An Act of War. Official U.S. Navy photo by PH2 Paul Soutar (Released)|left|thumb|150px]]

[[Image:Soviet destroyer.jpg|27 September - The Kashin class destroyer no. 660 interfered with the flight of a U.S. Navy helicopter. Radar lock-ons of U.S. Navy ships by the Kara class guided missile cruiser Petropavlovsk and the Kashin class destroyer Odarennyy.An Act of War. Official U.S. Navy photo by PH2 Paul Soutar (Released)|right|thumb|150px]]

(see real-time photos of some of the Soviet and U.S. ships involved in the confrontations [http://www.rescue007.org/photo_essay.htm])

(see real-time photos of some of the Soviet and U.S. ships involved in the confrontations [http://www.rescue007.org/photo_essay.htm])

Within minutes of the shootdown, two missions involving rescue helicopters, KGB patrol boats, and civilian ships were ordered by the Soviets to Moneron <ref>http://www.rescue007.org/rescue.htm</ref>.

Within minutes of the shootdown, two missions involving rescue helicopters, KGB patrol boats, and civilian ships were ordered by the Soviets to Moneron <ref>http://www.rescue007.org/rescue.htm</ref>.

[[Image:Mi-8.jpg|Soviet Mi-8 Rescue Helicopter|left|thumb|200px]]

[[Image:Mi-8.jpg|Soviet Mi-8 Rescue Helicopter|right|thumb|200px]]

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[[Image:After Action Report Map.jpg|After Action Report Map|right|thumb|300px]]

[[Image:After Action Report Map.jpg|After Action Report Map|right|thumb|300px]]

===No bodies or luggage===

===No bodies or luggage===

There are credible but as yet unconfirmed reports of survivors in the former Soviet Union, including Congressman Larry McDonald <ref>http://www.rescue007.org/faq.htm#10</ref> <ref>http://www.rescue007.org/survivors_of_kal_007.htm</ref>.  Jewish immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union reported seeing survivors from the flight.  According to reports, most of the adult passengers ended up in labor camps, while the children were adopted out and absorbed into Soviet society.  Congressman McDonald was interrogated in Lubyanka Prison in Moscow for a time before he too was sent to forced labor. [[Image:McDonald- Computer Aged.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Computer aged picture of McDonald till 1995 shown to wardens of Temir Tau, Kazakhstan prison where they identified McDonald as having been a former "probable prisoner". Note the scar runiing from the left nostril to corner of mouth.]]

There are credible but as yet unconfirmed reports of survivors in the former Soviet Union, including Congressman Larry McDonald <ref>http://www.rescue007.org/faq.htm#10</ref> <ref>http://www.rescue007.org/survivors_of_kal_007.htm</ref>.  Jewish immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union reported seeing survivors from the flight.  According to reports, most of the adult passengers ended up in labor camps, while the children were adopted out and absorbed into Soviet society.  Congressman McDonald was interrogated in Lubyanka Prison in Moscow for a time before he too was sent to forced labor. [[Image:McDonald- Computer Aged.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Computer aged picture of McDonald till 1995 shown to wardens of Temir Tau, Kazakhstan prison where they identified McDonald as having been a former "probable prisoner". Note the scar runiing from the left nostril to corner of mouth.]]

==Senator Jesse Helms and the POW and KAL 007 Connection==

==Senator Jesse Helms and the POW and KAL 007 Connection==

See [http://www.rescue007.org/passengers.htm] for breakdown of identities, with photos and stories by relatives and friends, for passengers, flight crew, flight attendants, security (air marshals), and deadheaders (repositioning KAL employees). See [http://www.rescue007.org/passenger_photos.htm] for photos of passengers who had boarded the plane but who have not been linked to passenger list and remain unidentified.

See [http://www.rescue007.org/passengers.htm] for breakdown of identities, with photos and stories by relatives and friends, for passengers, flight crew, flight attendants, security (air marshals), and deadheaders (repositioning KAL employees). See [http://www.rescue007.org/passenger_photos.htm] for photos of passengers who had boarded the plane but who have not been linked to passenger list and remain unidentified.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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