Quote by Korean Air Lines Flight 007

"The recollections bring back some unpleasant feelings. Those events left scars and added some gray hairs to my head. I will always be convinced that I gave the right order. Sometimes, in strategic operations, we had to sacrifice battalions to save the army."

— Korean Air Lines Flight 007

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Cold War Death 1980s in the Soviet Union South Korea Aviation accidents and incidents

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General Anatoly Kornukov, then commander of Dolinsk-Sokol Air Base during KAL 007 shootdown, in an 1998 interview, Anatoly Kornukov, Who Led Russian Air Force, Dies at 72 (July 1, 2014)

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Korean Air Lines Flight 007

Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KAL 007) was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska. On September 1, 1983, the South Korean airliner servicing the flight was shot down by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor. The airliner was en route from Anchorage to Seoul, but due to a navigational mistake made by the KAL crew the airliner deviated from its original planned route and flew through Soviet prohibited airspace around the time of a U.S. aerial reconnaissance missi

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