On This Day in 1978: KAL Flight 902

[Eric]

Korean Air Lines Flight 902 (KAL 902) was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from Paris to Seoul via Anchorage. On 20 April 1978, the Soviet air defense shot down the aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 707, near Murmansk, Soviet Union, after the aircraft violated Soviet airspace.

Flight 902 had veered off course over the Arctic Ocean and entered Soviet airspace near the Kola Peninsula, whereupon it was intercepted and fired upon by a Soviet fighter jet. The incident killed two of the 109 passengers and crew members aboard and forced the plane to make an emergency landing on the frozen Korpijärvi Lake near the Finnish border.

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[tous]

Five years later they shot down Korean Airlines flight 007 (KAL007) that killed everyone on board and then spent the next few years saying, Nope. Wasn't us.

 

[Fog]

How many civilian aircraft have been shot down in total?

I know the ME has a few.

Seem to recall that we might have a couple to our credit.

Italy got one? I might be mistaken on that.

Then there are the ones where the official story is that isn't what happened, but many believe otherwise.