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| | * Contrary to all known passenger plane explosions in air/crashes at sea, suitcases were not | | * Contrary to all known passenger plane explosions in air/crashes at sea, suitcases were not |
| | found floating on the sea (KAL 007 would have carried over 450 suitcases in the cargo area). | | found floating on the sea (KAL 007 would have carried over 450 suitcases in the cargo area). |
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| | * Contrary to all known passenger plane explosions in air/crashes at sea, and contrary to the | | * Contrary to all known passenger plane explosions in air/crashes at sea, and contrary to the |
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| | *[http://sterett.net/public/kal_007_search_ops.htm USS Sterett: First hand account of US-Soviet naval oonfrontation with real-time photos] | | *[http://sterett.net/public/kal_007_search_ops.htm USS Sterett: First hand account of US-Soviet naval oonfrontation with real-time photos] |
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| − | ==Footnotes and Notes== | + | ==Notes== |
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| | *1) At least 12 minutes according to combined Soviet/Japanese radar trackings. | | *1) At least 12 minutes according to combined Soviet/Japanese radar trackings. |
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| | *7) Izvestiya, May 27, 1991, p. 6. | | *7) Izvestiya, May 27, 1991, p. 6. |
| | *8) There is no way of ascertaining from this testimony if the “ten encounters” were with ten separate | | *8) There is no way of ascertaining from this testimony if the “ten encounters” were with ten separate |
| − | bodies or (more likely) ten encounters with a lesser number of bodies. It is entirely possible that these | + | bodies or (more likely) ten encounters with a lesser number of bodies. It is entirely possible that these encounters were with fragments from the same individual. |
| − | encounters were with fragments from the same individual. | |
| | *9) In all the divers’ reports, this is the only reference to a torso—that is, a body. The ten passenger disparity takes into account the unlikely possibility that the divers’ ten encounters with the remains of Boeing passengers were with the remains of ten separate individuals. | | *9) In all the divers’ reports, this is the only reference to a torso—that is, a body. The ten passenger disparity takes into account the unlikely possibility that the divers’ ten encounters with the remains of Boeing passengers were with the remains of ten separate individuals. |