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Line 158: − ===Timeline: Interception. Shootdown, and Rescue Missions===+ − '''17:53 GMT''' - ''First documented order for shootdown. General Anatoli Kornukov, Commander of Sokol Air base on Sakhalin to the command post of General Valeri Kamenski, Commander of Air Defense Forces for the Far East Military District'', + + + − “…simply destroy [it] even if it is over neutral waters? Are the orders to destroy it over neutral waters? Oh, well.” <ref>ICAO "93, Information Paper No.1, 101,/ref> + + + + + − '''18:11 GMT''' - ''Maj. Gennadie Osipovich in his Su-15 interceptor has been sent up to intercept the "intruder" and now views KAL 007 both visually and on his screen.''+ + + + + + + + + + + + + − Air Controller Titovnin: "Can you see the target, 805 (call sign for Osipovich)?+ − Osipovich: "I see both visually and on the screen". + − Titovnin: "Roger, report lock-on". <ref>ICAO '93, Transcript of Communications, pg. 62</ref> + + − '''18:15 GMT''' - ''KE007 requested FL [flight level] 350 [35,000 feet]<ref>ICAO Report, Appendix D, page D-3</ref>'' + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − '''18:20 GMT''' - ''Clearance given by Tokyo Radio for KAL 007 to climb to 35,000 ft.<ref>ICAO Report, Appendix D, page D</ref>'' ----+ + + − '''18:22:40-55 GMT''' - ''As power is diverted from velocity to lift, KAL 007 decreases speed and Maj. Ospiovich in his Su-15 draws abeam of the target. He will drop back and behind to fire the missiles.''+ + + − Lt. Col. Titovnin (Combat Controller): "805, open fire on target". − Maj. Osipovich: "It should have been earlier. How can I chase it? I’m already abeam of the target". + − Titovnin: "Roger, if possible, take up a position for attack". + − Osipovich: "Now I have to fall back a bit from the target".. + − ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- − '''18:23 GMT''' - ''KE007 reports reaching FL 350<ref>ICAO Report, Appendix D</ref>'' ---- − '''18:24 GMT''' - ''KAL 007 is seen by Gen. Kornukov about to successfully leave Soviet air space.'' + + + + + + + + + − Gen. Kornukov: "Oh, [obscenities] how long [does it take him] to attack position, he is already going out into neutral waters. Engage afterburner immediately. Bring in the MiG 23 as well...While you are wasting time, it will fly right out." (ICAO '93, Information Paper 1., pg. 130.<blockquote> − Here are Maj. Gennadie Osipovich's retrospective thoughts of this time, "They [KAL 007] quickly lowered their speed. They were flying at 400 kilometers per hour. My speed was more than 400. I was simply unable to fly slower. In my opinion, the intruder's intentions were plain. If I did not want to go into a stall, I would be forced to overshoot them. That's exactly what happened. We had already flown over the island [Sakhalin]. It is narrow at that point, the target was about to get away." <ref>Izvestiya newspaper, 1991</ref>+ − </blockquote> + + − '''18:26:02 and :04 GMT''' - ''Moments later he fired two missiles (2 seconds apart) - a heat seeker and a radar-guided missile (proximity fused) which exploded 50 meters behind KAL 007, the elevator cross over cable was either severed or unraveled causing an arc upward of one minute and 13 seconds - from 35,000 ft. to 38,250 ft. and down again to below 35,000. (ICAO '93, Bureau- Enquetes - Paris [ICAO subcontract], Chart 8, Pg. 93)''+ + + − <blockquote>+ − Here are Maj. Osipovich's retrospective thoughts at this time, "Then the ground [controller] gave the command: 'Destroy the target...!' That was easy to say. But how? With shells?! I had already expended 243 rounds. Ram it? I had always thought of that as poor taste. Ramming is the last resort. Just in case, I had already completed my turn and was coming down on top of him. Then, I had an idea. I dropped below him about 2,000 meters... afterburners. Switched on the missiles and brought the nose up sharply. Success! I have a lock on." <ref>Izvestiya newspaper, 1991</ref> − </blockquote> − '''18:26 GMT''' - ''Major Gennadie Osipovich, lead Soviet pilot, mistakenly (as subsequent Russian real-time military telecommunications show) reports:''+ + + + + + + + + + + − + + + + + + + + + + − '''18:26:06-11 GMT''' -'' First words after attack of Pilot and Co-Pilot''+ + + + + + − Captain Chun- "What happened?" − First Officer Son- "What?" + − Chun- "Retard throttles." + − Son- "Engines normal, sir." ''Indicating that Maj. Osipovich's heat seeking missile did not destroy any of the 4 engines. Son will again report engines normal at 18:26:45'' + + + + + + + − + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − '''18:26 GMT''' - ''Immediate Soviet awareness that target is not destroyed'' − Lt. Col Novoseltski (Smirnykh Air Base Acting Chief of Staff): "Well, what is happening, what is the matter, who guided him in, he locked on, why didn't he shoot it down?"<ref>ICAO ;93, Information paper No. 1, pg. 88</ref> + + + + + + + − '''18:26:45 GMT''' - ''First Officer Son to Captain Chun'' + + + + + − "Engines normal. Sir."+ − '''18:26:46 GMT''' - ''Captain Chun of KAL 007 was able to turn off the autopilot (click heard in CVR) and take manual control'' + − '''18:27:04 - 18:27:14 GMT''' -'' Captain Chun brings up KAL 007' nose for 10 seconds stabilizing at pre-detonation altitude of 35000,(ICAO '93, Bureau- Enquetes - Paris<ref>ICAO subcontract], Chart 8, Pg. 93</ref>'' + − '''18:27:10 - 18:27:25 GMT''' - ''KAL 007 sends to Tokyo Radio transmission from KAL 007''+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − + + + − '''18:27:20 GMT''' - ''At 1 minute and 44 seconds into the post-missile-detonation phase of flight which lasts for 12 minutes, both the KAL 007's CVR and DFDR tapes handed over by the Russians simultaneously cease their recorded material. These are the last recorded words from the CVR -'' + − '''18:27:20'''- "Now... we have to set this.", 18:27:23: "speed." 18:27:26-: "Stand by, stand by, stand by, stand by. set!" [Aviation Safety Network > Accident investigation > CVR / FDR > Transcripts > CVR transcript Korean Air Flight 007 - 31 AUG 1983]+ − '''18:28 GMT''' - ''KAL 007 makes its first post-detonation deviation from flight path by turning to the north.'' + − + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − + + + + + + + + + + + + + − + − '''18:29 GMT''' - ''Gen. Kornukov after being told both missiles had been launched and KAL 007 had turned north -'' + − + + + + + + + − '''18:29:13 GMT''' -'' Maj. Osipovich has started back to base. Other Soviet pilots flying support unsuccessfully try to locate wreckage of KAL 007 on the sea through low clouds. One states: "I don't see it."<ref>ICAO Report, Appendix D, pages D-3 and D-4</ref>'' ----+ + + + + − '''18:29:54 GMT''' - ''Another Soviet pilot looking for KAL 007 says, "No I don't see it."<ref>ICAO Report, Appendix D, pages D-3 and D-4</ref>'' ----+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − '''18:30 GMT''' - ''KAL 007 was reported by radar at 5,000 meters (16,424 ft).'' + + + + + + + + + + + + − '''18:33 GMT''' - ''KAL 007 is seen by Soviet radar at 5,000 meters at initial stage of spiral descent over Moneron Island''+ − Lt. Col. Gerasimenko. "Altitude of target is 5,000 neters.+ − General Kornukov: "5,000 already?" + − + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − '''18:34 GMT''' - ''Last recorded location of KAL 007 in spiral descent over Moneron Island is within Soviet territorial waters. "Where is it now", "It is in the Moneron area", "In our territory?", "Affirmative"<ref>ICAO '93, Information Paper No.1, pg. 156</ref>'' + − '''18:35 GMT''' - ''KAL 007 begins spiral descent over Moneron Island after having attained level flight for almost 5 minutes "The last plotted radar position of the target was 18:35 hours at 5,000 meters."'' + − + + + + + − General Kornukov:"...you know the range, where the target is. It is over Moneron..."<ref>ICAO, 1993, Information Paper No. 1, pg. 136</ref> + + + − '''18:38 GMT''' - ''KAL 007 disappeared from the radar screen (approximately 12 minutes after the initial attack). Soviet radar personnel stationed at Komsomolsk-na-Amura on the Siberian maritime reported KAL 007 disappearing from radar screen at 1,000 ft. altitude due to radar inability to track below that altitude. + − Soviet ships head for anticipated site that KAL 007 would reach the water while the aircraft was in the air.'' + + + + + + − <blockquote>+ − Izvestia testimony of a Soviet Naval Specialist, "When we learned that the aircraft had been attacked, and that weapons had been used, we began to analyze when it might possibly come down. Ships were ordered to the anticipated area. Several ships headed there at once at full speed..." − </blockquote> − '''18:38:37 GMT''' -'' The first Soviet support fighter pilot says: "I don't see anything in this area. I just looked." The Soviet support interceptors, with fuel low, return to their base without having sighted KAL 007<ref>ICAO Report, Appendix D, pages D-3 and D-4</ref>'' + − '''18:47 GMT''' - ''First ICAO documented Soviet SAR (Search and Rescue) mission: involving the KGB Border Guard boats and rescue helicopters (Khomutovo air base).'' + − Lt. Col. Novoseltski: prepare whatever helicopters there are . Rescue helicopters. + + + + + + + + + + + + + − Lt. Col. Titovnin: Rescue? + − Lt. Col. Novoseltski: Yes...+ − "Titovnin: "Novoaleksandrovska must be brought to readiness and Khomutovo. The border guards and KGB are at Khomutovo."<ref>ICAO, '93, Information Paper no. 1., pg. 93</ref> + − '''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> Line 324:
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→Timeline: Interception. Shootdown, and Rescue Missions
==Timeline of Attack and Rescue Mission==
17:49 - Capt. Solodkov: "Two pilots have just been sent up, command at the command post, we do not know what is happening just now, it's heading straight for our Island [Sakhalin], to Terpienie [Bay] somehow, this looks very suspicious to me, I don't think the enemy is stupid, can it be one of ours?"
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17:53 - First documented order for shootdown
General Anatoli Kornukov, commander of Sokol Air base on Sakhalin to the command post of General Valeri Kamenski, Commander of Air Defense Forces for the Far East Military District : "...simply destroy [it] even if it is over neutral waters? Are the orders to destroy it over neutral waters? Oh, well."
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17:54:26 - The Cockpit Voice Recorder records about the last half hour of an aircraft's flight continually playing over itself as the flight progresses. KAL 007's CVR tape (as well as the tape of the Flight Data Recorder) was stopped one minute and 44 seconds after missile detonation at 18:26:02, though the flight would continue for over 10 minutes more. Here is the beginning of the half hour taping of KAL 007's Flight Deck conversation:
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17:54:26 - Flight Deck: "Have you had a long flight recently?"
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17:54:28 - Flight Deck: "From time to time"
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17:54:30 - Flight Deck: "Sounds good, as far as I know Chief Pilot Park has a long flight occasionally, but Chief Pilot Lee has..."
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18:00 - Ground controllers are given orders on how to direct the jets to intercept the Korean airliner
Kornukov: "Bring him up, bring Osipovich in to the prescribed distance. You do not engage him to the target from the aft hemisphere, you do not engage him right on the tail, keep the angle of approach."
Kozlov [Fighter Control, Sokol airbase]: "Roger, executing. "
Kornukov: "Don't forget, it [the target] has cannons in the rear there"
Kozlov: "Roger, executing.
Kornukov: But faster, for the fighter, rather, the target is entering the zone above the one-hundred-kilometers waters [identification zone]."
Kozlov: "Wilco"
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18:04-05 - KAL 007, off course, and KAL 015, on course, compare wind velocity and direction. KAL 015 is enountering tailwinds while KAL 007 is encountering headwinds
KAL 015: "Um Um We are now having an unexpected strong tailwind How much do you get there? How much and which direction?"
KAL 007: "206. Ask him how many knots?..."
KAL 007: "Ah! You got so much! We still got headwind. Headwind 215 degrees, 15 knots."
KAL 015: "Is it so? But according to flight plan wind direction 360, 15 knots approximately."
KAL 007: "Well, it may be like this."
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18:05:53 - Maj. Osipovich, callsign "805", in his Su-15 intercepted KAL 007:
"On heading 240"
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18:05:56 - Osipovich: "Am observing."
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18:08 - Kozlov (Combat Controller Sokol Airbase): "He has the target in sight"
Kornukov: "He can see it? How many jet trails are coming from it?"
Kozlov: "Say again"
Kornukov: How many jet trails are there, if there are four jet trails, then it's a Boeing RC-135"
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18:11:30-39 - KAL 007 Flight Crew: "I have heard that there is currency exchange at your airport." "In the airport currency exchange? What kind of money?" "Dollar to Korean money." "That's in the domestic building too, domestic building too."
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18:11 - Air Controller Titovnin: "Can you see the target, 805?"
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18:11 - Osipovich: "I see both visually and on the screen".
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18:11 - Lt. Col. Titovnin: "Roger, report missile lock-on|lock-on".
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18:12 - Kornukov: "Gerasimenko!"
Lt. Col. Gerasimenko (41st fighter Regiment Command Post): "Yes"
Kornukov: "Well, what, don't you understand? I said bring [him] up to a range of 4 kilometers, 4-5 kilometers, identify the target. You understand that weapons are going to have to be used now and you are holding [him] at a range of 10. Give the pilot [his] orders."
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18:13:05 - Osipovich: "I see it. I am locked onto the target."
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18:13:06 - General Kornukov: "Chaika" (Call sign for Far East Military District Air Defence Forces).
Titovnin: "Yes, sir. He sees [it] on the radar screen, He sees [it] on the screen, He has locked on, he is locked on, he is locked on."
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18:13:26 - Osipovich: "The target isn't responding to the call."
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18:13 - Titovnin: 805, Is the target's heading 240?
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18:13:35 - Osipovich: "Affirmative. The target's heading is 240 degrees."
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18:13 - Titovnin: Roger, arm your weapons
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18:13 - Osipovich: Turned on
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18:14 - Gen Kornukov to Gen. Kamenski:
"The target is destroyed."<ref>ICAO Report, Appendix D, page D-3</ref>
"Comrade General, Kamenski, Good morning. I am reporting the situation. Target 60-65 is over Terpenie Bay [East Coast of Sakhalin] tracking 240, 30 kilometers from the State Border. The fighter from Sokol is 6 kilometers away. Locked on, orders were given to arm weapons. The target is not respondeing to identify. He cannot identify it visually because it is still dark, but he is still locked on."
Gen. Kamenski: "We must find out, maybe it is some civilian craft or God knows who."
Kornukov: "What civilian? [It] has flown over Kamchatka! It [came] from the ocean without identification. I am giving the order to attack if it crosses the State border."
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18:14:59 - KAL 007 contacted Tokyo air traffic control requesting permission to climb to Flight level 350 [35,000 ft.]
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18:14:59 - KAL 007: "Tokyo Radio Korean Air zero zero seven"
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18:15 - Titovnin: "Maistrenko Comrade Colonel, that is, Titovnin."
Col. Maistrenko (Operations Duty Officer, Combat Control Center): "Yes".
Titovnin: "The commander has given orders that if the border is violated—destroy [the target]."
Maistrenko: "...May [be] a passenger [aircraft]. All necessary steps must be taken to identify it."
Titovnin: "Identification measures are being taken, but the pilot cannot see. It's dark. Even now it's still dark."
Maistrenko: "Well, okay. The task is correct. If there are no lights—it cannot be a passenger [aircraft]."
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18:15:03 - Tokyo radio: "Korean Air zero zero seven Tokyo"
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18:15:07 - KAL 007: "Korean Air zero zero seven requesting climb three five zero"
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18:15:13 - Tokyo radio: "Requesting three five zero?"
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'''18:26:13 GMT''' -'' Cabin Altitude Warning Alarm sounds indicating decompression due to missile shrapnel puncturing cabin. The fact that it sounded (CVR) 11 seconds after missile detonation indicates that total area of rupture damage to cabin is 1 3/4 square feet. <ref>ICAO ,93, pg. 54</ref>''
18:15:15 - KAL 007: "That is affirmative now maintain at three three zero Korean Air zero zero seven"
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18:15:19 - Tokyo radio: "Roger stand by call you back"
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18:15:21 - KAL 007: "Roger"
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18:15:21 - KAL 007 Flight deck: "Oh my God! This radio is very bad"
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18:15:52 - [Audible morse transmission starts]
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18:20:11 - Toyko radio: "Korean Air zero zero seven. Clearance Tokyo ATC clears Korean Air zero zero seven climb and maintain flight level 350"
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18:20:21 - KAL 007: "Ah roger Korean Air 007 climb and maintain at 350 leaving 330 at this time."
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18:20:28 - Tokyo radio: "Tokyo roger."
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18:21:35 - Osipovich: "Yes, I'm approaching the target. I'm going in closer."
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18:21:35 - Osipovich: "The target's strobe lightis blinking. I have already approached the target to a distance of about 2 kilometers."
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18:21:40 - Osipovich: "The target is at 10,000| [meters]"
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18:21:55 - Osipovich: "What are instructions?"
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18:22:02 - KAL 007 decreased speed as it climbed, causing the pursuing fighter to draw abeam of it.
Osipovich: "The target is decreasing speed."
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18:22:17 - Osipovich: "I am going around it. I'm already moving in front of the target."
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18:22:17 - Titovnin: "Increase speed, 805" [call sign of Osipovich's Sukhoi].
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18:22:23 - Osipovich: "I have increased speed."
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18:22:23 - Titovnin: "Has the target increased speed, yes?"
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18:22:29 - Osipovich: "No, it is decreasing speed."
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18:22:29 - Titovnin: "805, open fire on target."
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18:22:42 - Osipovich: "It should have been earlier. How can I chase it? I'm already abeam of the target."
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18:22:42 - Titovnin: "Roger, if possible, take up a position for attack."
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18:22:55 - Osipovich: "Now I have to fall back a bit from the target."
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18:21-22 - Kornukov: "Gerasimenko, cut the horesplay at the command post, what is that noise there? I repeat the combat task: fire missiles, fire on target 60-65."
Gerasimenko: "Wilco"
Kornukov: "Comply and get Tarasov here. Take control of the Mig-23 from Smirnykh, call sign 163, call sign 163, he is behind the target at the moment. Destroy the target!"
Gerasimenko: "Task received. Destroy target 60-65 with missile fire, accept control of fighter from Smirnykh"
Kornukov: "Carry out the task, destroy [it]!"
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18:22:55 - Gen. Kornukov: "Oh, [expletives] how long does it take him to get into attack position, he is already getting out into neutral waters? Engage afterburner immediately. Bring in the MiG 23 as well... While you are wasting time it will fly right out."
Titovnin: "805, try to destroy the target with cannons."
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18:22:56 - KA|L 007 reports reaching its newly assigned altitude''
KAL 007: "Tokyo Radio Korean Air 007 reaching level three five zero".
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18:23:37 - Osipovich: "I am dropping back. Now I will try a rocket."
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18:23:37 - Titovnin: "Roger."
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18:23:49 - MiG 23 (163): "Twelve kilometers to the target. I see both [the Soviet interceptor piloted by Osipovich and KAL 007]."
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18:23:37 - Titovnin: "805, approach target and destroy target."
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18:24:22 - Osipovich: "Roger, I am in lock-on."
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18:24:22 - Titovnin: "805, are you closing on the target?"
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18:25:11 - Osipovich: "I am closing on the target, am in lock-on. Distance to target is 8 kilometers."
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18:25:11 - Titovnin: "Afterburner. AFTERBURNER, 805!"
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18:25:16 - Osipovich: "I have already switched it on."
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18:25:16 - Titovnin: "Launch!"
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18:25:46 - Osipovich: "Z.G." (Fuel panel light)
18:26:02 - Cockpit: [Sound of explosion?]
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18:26:06 - Captain: "What's happened?"
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18:26:08 - Co-pilot: "What?"
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18:26:10 - Captain: "Retard throttles."
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18:26:11 - Co-Pilot: "Engines normal."
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18:26:14 - Captain: "Landing gear."
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18:26:15 - Cockpit: [Sound of cabin altitude warning]
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18:26:17 - Captain: "Landing gear."
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18:26:18 - Cockpit: [Sound of altitude deviation warning]
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18:26:20 - Osipovich: "I have executed the launch."
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18:26 - Kornukov: "Well, what do you hear there?"
Gerasimenko: "He has launched"
Kornukov: "I did not understand"
"Korean Air zero zero seven ... (unintelligible) ... rapid compressions ... (unintelligible) ... descending to one zero thousand [10,000 feet]." ''(ICAO Report page 43) This message sent by High Frequency Radio 1., antenna located on left wing tip, indicating both that Maj. Osipovich was wrong when he stated that his missile had taken off the left wing and that the heat seeking missile had missed its mark. "The HF 1 radio aerial of the aircraft was positioned in the left wing tip suggesting that the left wing tip was intact at this time. Also, the aircraft's maneuvers after the attack did not indicate extensive damage to the left wing."<ref>ICAO '93 report, pg. 39, 1.16.1.6</ref>''
Gerasimenko: "He has launched"
Kornukov: "He has launched, follow the target, follow the target, withdraw yours from the attack and bring the MiG-23 in there."
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18:26:21 - Cockpit: [Sound of autopilot disconnect warning]
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18:26:22 - Captain: "Altitude is going up. Altitude is going up. Speed brake is coming out." '' [Flight Data Recorder will show that speed brake had not deployed]''
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18:26:22 - Major Osipovich mistakenly (as subsequent Russian real-time military telecommunications show) reports the Boeing is destroyed
Lt. Col. Gerasimienko (Acting Commander, 41st Fighter Regiment): "The target turned to the north."
Osipovich: "The target is destroyed."
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18:26:22 - Titovnin: "Break off attack to the right, heading 360."
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18:26:23 - Co-Pilot: "What? What?"
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18:26:27 - Osipovich: "I am breaking off attack."
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18:26:27 - Cockpit: [Unintelligible]
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18:26:29 - Captain: "Check it out."
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18:26:33 - Captain: "I am not able to drop altitude."
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18:26:33 - MiG-23: "What are (my) instructions?"
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18:26:34 - Public Address: "Attention emergency descent"
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18:26:38 - Public Address: "Attention emergency descent"
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18:26:38 - Crew: "Altitude is going up."
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18:26:40 - Crew: "This is not working. This is not working."
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18:26:41 - Crew: "Manually."
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18:26:42 - Crew: "Cannot do manually."
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18:26:42 - Public Address: "Attention emergency descent"
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18:26:43 - Cockpit: [Sound of the autopilot disconnect warning] ICAO graphing of Digital Flight Data Recorder tapes will show that autopilot has now been disengaged and manual control begun. KAL 007 now begins descent phase of arc.
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18:26:45 - Co-Pilot: "Engines are normal sir."
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18:26:46 - Public Address: "Put out your cigarette. This is an emergency descent."
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18:26:47 - MiG-23: "My wing tanks have lit up. The fuel remainder differs by 600 litres for now.
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18:26:48 - Cockpit: [Unintelligible]
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18:26:49 - Public Address: "Put out your cigarette. This is an emergency descent."
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18:26:50 - Captain: "Is it power compression?"
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18:26:51 - Flight Engineer: "Is that right?"
18:26:52 - Public Address: "Put out your cigarette, this is an emergency descent."
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18:26:52 - Flight Engineer: "All of both."
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18:26:53 - Osipovich: "Fuel remainder 1,600"
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18:26:54 - Captain: "Is that right?"
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18:26:55 - Public Address: "Put the mask over your nose and mouth and adjust the headband."
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18:26:57 - Co-Pilot: "Tokyo radio Korean Air 007."
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18:26 - Soviet commanders become aware that target is not destroyed.
Lt. Col Novoseltski: "Well, what is happening, what is the matter, who guided him in, he locked on, why didn't he shoot it down?"
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18:27:01 - Public Address: "Put the mask over your nose and mouth and adjust the headband."
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18:27:01 - Osipovich: "I am executing. What is the distance to the airfield?"
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18:27:02 - Tokyo radio: "Korean Air 007, Tokyo."
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18:27:04 - "Accentuated breathing during the transmission indicated that an oxygen mask was being worn" (ICAO '93, pg. 35)
Co-Pilot: "Roger, Korean Air 007...ah, we are experiencing..."
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18:27:05 - Osipovich: "Roger"
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18:27:08 - Public Address: "Put the mask over your nose and mouth and adjust the headband."
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18:27:08 - MiG-23: "What heading?"
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18:27:09 - Flight Engineer: "All compression."
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18:27:10 - Captain: "Rapid decompression. Descend to one zero thousand."
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18:27:15 - Public Address: "Attention emergency descent."
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18:27:20 - ICAO graphing of Digital Flight Data Recorder tapes now show that after a descent phase and a 10 second "nose-up", KAL 007 is now leveled out at pre-missile detonation altitude of 35,000 ft., forward acceleration is now back to pre-missile detonation rate of zero acceleration, and air speed has returned to pre-detonation velocity. Yaw (occilations), begun at the time of missile detonation, continue decreasingly until the end of the minute 44 second porton of CVR tape
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18:27:20 - Flight Engineer: "Now...we have to set this."
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18:27:21 - Tokyo radio: "Korean Air 007, radio check on one zero zero four eight."
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18:27:23 - Public Address: "Attention emergency descent."
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18:27:23 - Flight Engineer: "Speed."
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18:27:26 - Flight Engineer: "Stand by. Stand by. Stand by. Stand by. Set."
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18:27:27 - Public Address: "Put out your cigarette. This is an emergency descent."
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18:27:29 - MiG-23: "I'm executing left to a heading of 180."
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18:27:30 - Public Address: "Put out your cigarette. This is an emergency descent."
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18:27:33 - Public Address: "Put out your cigarette this is an emergency descent."
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18:27:38 - Public Address: "Put the mask over your nose and mouth and adjust the headband."
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18:27:43 - Public Address: "Put the mask over your nose and mouth and adjust..."
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18:27:46 - End of CVR recording''
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18:27:53 - MiG-23: "Heading 150, Roger."
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18:27 - Kornukov: "Did Osipovich see the missiles explode? Hello?"
Gerasimenko: "He fired two missiles."
Kornukov: "Ask him, ask him yourself,get on channel three and ask Osipovich did he or did he not see the explosions?"
Gerasimenko: "Right away"
Gerasimenko" "805, did you launch one missile or both?"<ref>ICAO '93. Information Pages 1. pp. 132-133</ref>
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18:28:05 - Osipovich: "I launched both"
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18:28:08 - Tokyo radio - KAL 007: (Selcal 007)
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18:28:20 - MiG-23: "Roger, heading 150, 7,500"
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18:28:26 - Tokyo radio-KAL 007: (Selcal 007)
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18:28:29 - MiG-23: "Executing heading 210"
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18:28:35 - MiG-23: "I executed"
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18:28:40 - Tokyo radio-KAL 007: (Selcal 007)
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18:28:51 - MiG-23: "Roger heading 210"
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18:28 - Lt. Col. Gerasimienko: "The target turned to the north."
Gen. Kornukov: "The target turned to the north?"
Gen. Kornukov: "The target turned to the north?"
Gerasimienko: "Affirmative."
Gerasimienko: "Affirmative."
Kornukov: "Bring the [MiG] 23 in to destroy it!"
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18:28:52 - Tokyo radio-KAL 007: Korean Air zero zero seven Tokyo
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18:29:12 - Tokyo radio-KAL 007: Korean Air zero zero seven Tokyo
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18:29 - Gen. Kornukov: 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 am asking, give the order to the Controller, what is wrong with you there? Have you lost your tongues?
Gerasimenko: I gave the order to the Chief of Staff, the Chief of Staff to the Controller, and the Controller is giving he order to...
Kornukov: "Bring the 23 [MiG] in to destroy it!"<ref>ICAO'93, Information Paper No. 1. pg. 132</ref>
Kornukov (18:30): Well how long does it take for this infromation to get through, well, what, [you] cannot ask the results of firing the missiles, where, what, did [he] not understand or what?<ref>ICAO '93, Information Paper, 1., p. 133</ref>
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18:29:13 - The Soviet pilots unsuccessfully tried to locate the wreckage of KAL 007
"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?"<ref>ICAO '93, Information Paper No. 1., pg. 133</ref>
MiG-23 pilot says of their target: "No, I don't see it."
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18:29:20 - Tokyo radio-KAL 007: (Selcal 007)
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18:29:21 - MiG-23 "Executing heading 360."
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18:29:50 - MiG-23 "Roger, taking a heading of 360."
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18:30:00 - Tokyo radio-KAL 007: (Selcal 007)
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18:30 - KAL 007 was last seen by radar at Wakkanai at a height of 5,000 meters (16,424 ft)
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18:30-34/35 - KAL 007 will continue at altitude level 5,000 meters for almost 5 minutes until over Moneron Island
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18:30:42 - Tokyo radio-KAL 007: (Selcal)
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18:31:04-28 - Tokyo radio-KAL 015: Roger. Would you attempt to contact Korean Air zero zero seven Korean Air zero zero seven and, er....relay his position please?
KAL 015: Roger Stand by
KAL 015-KAL 007: Zero zero seven, KAL 015-KAL 007: Zero zero seven, KAL 015-KAL 007: Zero zero seven Korean Air zero zero zero one five
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18:32-33 - Kornukov: Altitude, what is the altitude of our fighter and the altitude of the target?...Quickly, the altitude of of the target and the altitude of the fighter!...Why don't you say anything?... Gerasimenko!
Gerasimenko: I am asking...
Kornukov: Hurry up, guys, that's a real target. Hello, Mastak, Mastak, Mastak,
Mastak, Mastak, Mastak, Mastak, Mastak, Mastak[Call sign]
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18:33:05 - KAL 015-Tokyo radio: Tokyo this is Korean Air 015
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18:33/34 - KAL 007 was seen by Soviet radar at 5,000 meters at initial stage of spiral descent over Moneron Island.
Lt. Col. Gerasimenko: "Altitude of target is 5,000."
General Kornukov: "5,000 already?"
Gerasimenko: "Affirmative, turning left, right, apparently it is descending."
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18:33:08-18:35:06
|Tokyo radio-KAL 015: Korean Air zero one five go ahead
KAL 015-Tokyo radio: Unable to contact Korean Air zero zero seven
Tokyo radio-KAL 015: Ah would you use VHF please or VHF over
KAL 015-Tokyo radio: Ah roger
KAL 015-KAL 007: Korean Air zero zero seven zero one five, Korean Air zero zero seven zero one five
KAL 015-Tokyo radio: Tokyo Korean Air zero one five unable to contact
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18:34 - Kornukov: "Destroy it, use the [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23|23]] to destroy it, I said!"
Gerasimenko: "Roger, destroy it."
Kornukov: "Well, where is the fighter, how far from the target?"
Gerasimenko (18:34): "Affirmative, turning left, right, apparently it is descending."<ref>ICAO '93, Information Paper No. 1, pg. 156</ref>
Gerasimenko: "Comrade General, they cannot see the target."
Kornukov: "They cannot see the target?"
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18:35 - KAL 007 has now been tracked by Soviet radar as descended below 5,000 meters in its spiral over Moneron Island.
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18:35:54 - Call sign 121 [a Su-15 interceptror]: "No, I don't see it"
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18:36 - Kornukov: "...you know the range, where the target is. It is over Moneron..."
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18:38:37 - MiG-23: "I don't see anything in this area. I just looked."
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18:38 - Titovnin: "They lost the target, Comrade Colonel, in the area of Moneron."
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18:38 - Novoseletski: "In the area of Moneron?"
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18:38 - Titovnin: "The pilots do not see it, neither the one nor the other. The radio forces have reported...that after the launch, the target entered a right turn over Moneron."
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18:38 - Novoseletski: "Uh-huh."
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18:38 - Titovnin: "Descending. And lost over Moneron"
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18:38 - KAL 007 disappeared from radar (approximately 12 minutes after the initial attack). Soviet radar personnel stationed at Komsomolsk-na-Amure on the Siberian maritime reported KAL 007 disappearing from radar screen at 1000 ft altitude due to radar inability to track below that altitude.
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'''18:36''' -
18:38:37 - The first Soviet pilot reiterates: "I don't see anything in this area. I just looked."
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18:39 - Novoseletski: So, the task. They say it has violated the State border again, now?
Titovnin: Well, it is in the area of Moneron, of course, over our territory.
Novoseletski: Get it, Get it! Go ahead, bring in the MiG 23.
Titovnin: Roger. The MiG 23 is in the area. It is descending to 5,000. The orders have been given: destroy upon detection.
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18:40:11 - MiG-23: "I'm not able to determine the cloud base. The clouds are below me and I'm at 2000 ft"
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18:41 - Kornukov: Well, what [is happening] there. Has the [MiG] 23 reported anything, does he see [it] or not? Bring him down to 4,000. Have him look visually and on the radar sight.
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18:41:17 - Tokyo radio-KAL 007: (Selcal 007)
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18:41:55 - Last attempt of Tokyo radio to make contact''
Tokyo radio-KAL 007: Korean Air zero zero seven Korean Air zero zero seven this is Tokyo Radio if you read me re...request radio check Tokyo requests radio check one two seven decimal six one two seven decimal six
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18:45 - Unidentified speakers: "Say again", "I cannot hear you clearly now", "He gave the order, hello, hello, hello", "Yes, yes", "Ivan Moiseevich gave the order. Tretyak", "Roger, roger", "Weapons were used at his orders." [General Ivan Moiseevich Tretyak, Commander of the Far East Military District]
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18:47 - On order of Lt. Col. Novoseletski, Acting Commander of 41st Fighter wing at Smirnykh Air Base, KGB Border Guard boats ordered and rescue helicopters dispatched from Khomutovo military/civilian air base in southern Sakhalin.
Novoseletski: "Prepare whatever helicpters there are. Rescue helicopters."
Titovnin: "Rescue?"
Novoseletski: "Yes. And there will probably be a task set for the area where the target was lost."
Titovnin: "Roger. Is this to be done through your Search and Rescue|? Assign the task through your CHAIKA ["Far East Military District Air Defense Forces" call sign, Comrade, Colonel, Khomutovo does not come under us and neither does Novoalexasndrovski. We have nothing here."
Novoseletski: "Very well"
Titovnin: "Novoalexandrovski must be brought to readiness and Khomutovo. The border guards and KGB are at Khomutovo."
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18:53 - Kornukov: "What [happened} was it not destroyed?"
Osipovich: "The target disappeared, but it was somehow descending slowly...either it was put out of action or it was damaged, it disappeared in the area of Moneron, no one can see it at the moment. Well, it looks as if it was put out of action."
Kornukov: "Roger, good, we'll sort it out."
Osipovich: "Uh-huh, Roger"
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|18:55 - Any civilian ships near Moneron sent to Moneron itself on order of Deputy Commander of Far East Military District (under Gen. Tretyak), Gen. Strogov.''
Strogov: "You s......., I'll lock you up in the guard house. Why don't you pick up the phone?"
Strogov: "You s......., I'll lock you up in the guard house. Why don't you pick up the phone?"
Titovnin: "Understood, Comrade General."<ref>ICAO '93, Information Paper 1., pp. 95-96</ref>
Titovnin: "Understood, Comrade General."<ref>ICAO '93, Information Paper 1., pp. 95-96</ref>
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18:56 - Japanese Search and Rescue ordered begun''
"At 18:56 hours, thirty minutes after KE 007's estimated time over NOKKA and after repeated attempts to re-establish communication had failed, Tokyo ACC [Air Control Center] notified several ATS [Air Traffic Service] units and military units via direct-speech links, of its inability to establish radio contact with KE 007, and requested them to conduct a communication search." (ICAO '93, sect. 1.11.1, pg. 16)
"At 18:56 hours, thirty minutes after KE 007's estimated time over NOKKA and after repeated attempts to re-establish communication had failed, Tokyo ACC [Air Control Center] notified several ATS [Air Traffic Service] units and military units via direct-speech links, of its inability to establish radio contact with KE 007, and requested them to conduct a communication search."<ref>ICAO '93, sect. 1.11.1, pg. 16</ref>
==Flight Data Recorder Chart showing the regaining of control of KAL 007==
==Flight Data Recorder Chart showing the regaining of control of KAL 007==