A fighter plane shot down a passenger plane. Soviet version. Trouble in the Kremlin

Korean Boeing 1983

This case is included in World history. Over Sakhalin on the night of September 1, 1983 was shot down Korean Passenger airplane Boeing 747. Airplane belonged state South Korea and flew flight 007, New York - Anchorage - Seoul. Western means mass media was declared what's on board Korean Boeing shot down in 1983 was 269 passengers, not to mention crew members. The passengers included US citizens. Among the dead was US Congressman Larry McDonald, who was active USSR critic. ALL THE TRUTH about this flight known only TO A SMALL GROUP OF PENTAGON STAFF.

American President Ronald Reagan immediately after he was shot down over Sakhalin, he announced to the whole world that USSR in your fight for influence in the world can even use methods such as, destruction of passenger aircraft such as Korean Boeing downed in 1983 year. After this statement American President throughout the progressive world swept thousands of demonstrations of protest of the peoples these countries. peoples countries from America to Japan demanded accept decisive action in relation to to the USSR. Whole The world shook. First after the Caribbean crisis reappeared specter of nuclear war!

American intelligence always gave Special attention administered electronic intelligence, especially using aviation. Beginning since 1945 years, started regular reconnaissance flying over the territory of the USSR and his allies.

Long before shot down Korean Boeing in 1983, beginning since the late 50s years of the last century, American air reconnaissance started applying new method conducting reconnaissance. Simultaneously with the advent of the passenger jet aircraft Boeing 707, at the American air reconnaissance there was an aircraft built based on the Boeing 707. Respectively reconnaissance aircraft looked on the radar screen as a passenger airplane . spy plane, unarmed, intentionally invaded the territory of the USSR, to a certain depth in order to set work parameters locators air defense, and then in a hurry was leaving back abroad! Later in the same capacity and for the same purpose the aircraft was also used Boeing 747, How Korean Boeing, downed over Sakhalin in 1983!

On the night of August 31st to September 1st, 1983 years, things happened like this. At 20:30 Moscow time time on Far Eastern radars air defense appeared an air object similar to American intelligence airplane RC-135. Intruder aircraft crossed the border exactly at the place where the Soviet strategic bombers returned from training assignments! Korean Boeing 1983 of the year exactly bypassed Soviet air defense zones, clearly knowing their location and turned out over the territory where was located base Soviet strategic submarines!

To intercept offenders were raised two Su-15 fighters And MiG-23. Define what aircraft is intruder, only succeeded from very close range! Fighters identified it as a plane similar to Tu-16. Fighters filed precautionary shots, but Korean Boeing over Sakhalin in 1983 no way did not react on them and did not answer on requests according to emergency international radio frequency.

After precautionary shots Korean Boeing over Sakhalin in 1983 did a few complex air maneuvers including sharp dropped speed to 400 kilometers per hour. Apparently, Korean Boeing Pilots, invaded air spaceUSSR in 1983, exactly knew that the Soviet fighter Su-15 at this speed may become unstable in flight! Soviet pilot Osipovich gave order to shoot down intruder plane! Osipovich reported to the ground rocket launch produced , airplane shot down!

Western intelligence recorded negotiations Soviet pilot with a command post! Downed in 1983 the plane turned out to be Korean Boeing-747, state-owned South Korea, following by spacecraft flightL 007.

Only through 4 hours this case has become famous wide world community! IN Western media it was announced that 269 passengers died! This case worldwide was announced as attack on a defenseless civilian airplane! By around the world a wave swept protests. E that case for good reason allowed to accuse in hostility Soviet regime!

Let's try to reproduce details And details this ill-fated flight from the very beginning. IN 1983 August 30th Korean Boeing-747 takes off from New York airport named after Kennedy. The plane belonged airlines, which was not a member of the association of international carriers, so tickets in this airline Sometimes cost about 3 times cheaper than other airlines! Accordingly, the airline saved on everything whatever was possible. The pilots chose the most shortest routes flight to save fuel.

WITH 1978 on Korean Boeing, owned by this airline in 1983 stood latest navigational INS instruments(inertial navigation system) ! On this the plane was 3 such devices. With their help location aircraft is determined any time time is very accurate with the maximum possible error of 5 meters and then such an error is possible only with highly specific conditions! Moreover, these devices connected to two autopilots and can fly a plane independently according to a given program! Also on this Korean Boeing V 1983 navigation was provided 2 compasses, 2 VHF beacon receivers, 2 ADF receivers with remote measuring appliances and 2 weather radars!

commander Korean Boeing shot down in 1983 was Chang Bing In, most experienced pilot. He was colonel stock of South Korean Air force! His flying experience was over 10,000 hours. Flight distance By this route was 11,400 kilometers. The flight was supposed to be standard.

August 31st V 14 hours 30 minutes the plane does technical landing for refueling And crew changes V Anchorage. This is where things start to happen some ODDIES! No explanation reasons Korean Boeing V 1983delayed by 40 minutes and then additionally poured 4 tons of fuel! That year it was only 3 cases when the plane took off with full tanks fuel!

About the same time near the Soviet border on Far East were spotted American reconnaissance aircraft. Also in this moment near Soviet borders cruised 3 US Navy ship.

Approximately after 4 minutes after in 1983 took off Korean Boeing flight 007, permission takeoff gets another one South Korean Boeing flight 015! Fact departure TWIN PLANE, which really fly to Seoul, will subsequently hush up!

Commander 40th fighter aviation divisions Far East military district Anatoly Kornukov V 1983 received a message from operational officer, What Korean Boeing violated air border, goes west Kamchatka to the side Sakhalin. Kornukov ordered to raise three on duty fighter for escorts or destruction violator - it will be found out according to the situation.

One minute before air defense command received urgent message, What over Yakutsk passed American military satellite And at 3 hours 7 minutes he should come to the north parts Sakhalin.

In general, it should be noted that in 1983 in case of violation of the air border Korean Boeing in Kamchatka, Americans used all types of military technology, which was only possible in this case! This and space satellites And high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft And sea ships and planes AWACS And ground radar stations. Everything was coordinated powerful intelligence operation.

Sky in the area of the incident this night was cloudy. To intercept Korean Boeing V 1983 3 Soviet fighters took off. Them in advance was given command, confirm target - spy plane and destroy his! When approaching the target pilot Su-15 Osipovich took the intruder on sight, But In the first entering shooting did not produce. On big distance, at night it is forbidden was exactly define, what kind of plane was it and besides Osipovich hoped What order to shoot down violator will be canceled! Osipovich reported on the ground that Korean Boeing, USSR in 1983, does not respond to requests, gaining altitude And slows down, determine the type of target due to poor visibility can't, target goes to low speed!

The land gave Osipovich new indication Korean Boeing, violating airspace USSR in 1983, don't knock down A force landing! Osipovich dropped the capture of the rocket,slowed down and saw before me big liner with illuminated portholes! Went in first on the left, signaled with lights And rocking. Then did same on the right.intruder no way did not react to fighter signals received international aviation rules And did not respond to requests on the emergency channel connections ! Pilot Korean Boeing V 1983 was hard installation, disobey neither on which requirements forces air defense of the USSR, even risk-based be shot down!

After that Osipovich gave orders to Korean Boeing, violating the airspace USSR in 1983, open warning fire! After this warning fire from guns at Osipovich in ammunition left Total 4 shells! Miss shooting from a cannon on an airplane going on such close distance, especially at night impossible!

After this precautionary shooting Korean Boeing, violating airspace USSR V 1983, slowed down before 400 kilometers per hour, forcing Su-15 or go ahead or fall into a tailspin! Soviet ground more services tried go out get in touch with the offender, but unsuccessfully!

Violator assigned not only passive role! At this time when Korean Boeing, violating airspace USSR in 1983, was approaching Sakhalin appeared on the air message, what the offender is transmitting encryption, above him, American satellite. In this encryption it was said that he observing clearly, lying on depth up to 300 meters Soviet strategic submarines And taking pictures!

It was necessary urgently take action because the perpetrator passed the secret naval bases, and at Soviet fighters were running out of fuel. Kornukov gives an order Osipovich destroyKorean Boeing, violating in 1983 air space THE USSR!

Osipovich with did intense turn and went out to the rear hemisphere violator on distance approximately 1,5 kilometers. He immediately on instruments caught fire capture information goals. Osipovich in one gulp released two missiles. One hit Vtail violator , other V left wing.

Shot down in 1983 Korean Boeing began to fall sharply. IN 6 hours 24 minutes Far Eastern time the target is gone from locator screens. Exactly the place plane crash failed to capture neither ground services , nor fighters. It was only known that this Tatar Strait And approximate location fall !

After being shot down in 1983 Korean Boeing a new round of cold has begun wars between USSR and USA. Literally the next day The USSR was declared an evil empire. Relationship between USSR and USA heated up to the limit. armed strength both countries are given in full combat readiness! In the area where the Korean Boeing crashed V 1983 are going fleets of the USA, USSR and them allies! Japanese Air Force announce alert collection! Simultaneously spins with it anti-Soviet company. Pilot Osipovich appears as desperate cowboy, A Soviet military command as able without hesitation click on nuclear button!

After in 1983 was shot down Korean Boeing Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR it turned out not ready to ensure that in a timely manner And confidently uphold interests of the USSR!Partly it happened because head of government at that time was Yu.V.Andropov, that was terminally ill! Country leadership at the moment when it was hit Korean Boeing V 1983 by and large say missing! Soviet government, without getting into the details affairs, instead of order to praise for the right action air defense force, Start vaguely justify! West visually made sure that Soviet government in such cases unable on correct actions! Was informational war!

After being hit Korean Boeing V 1983, Western media did emphasis that the aircraft deviated from the correct route as a result of a data entry error into the on-board computer of the aircraft, that is on autopilot plane! Wherein no one could explain How, Korean Boeing, downed in 1983 equipped with the most modern navigational appliances, very controlled an experienced pilot And accompanied ground controllers of several countries, deviated from the right route almost for 500 kilometers! Was impossible not to notice that the plane is flying on the wrong course during two and a half hours!

Korean Boeing, downed in 1983 flew exactly over the Soviet secret military objects on Far East there is also proof, what he intentionally had tried get away from persecution Soviet air defense fighters, making certain maneuvers in flight!

Even more clarify the facts of the case we could "black boxes" aircraft . Korean Boeing, downed in 1983 fell into Tatar Strait at a depth of about 180 meters . started search aircraft . Soviet divers found the wreckage first! Soviet Navy thrown into the sea 2 beacon, imitating signals "black boxes" away from the crash site, thereby directing Americans by false follow!

wreckage Korean Boeing, shot down in 1983 turned out pretty small and lying pretty heap. Dimensions debris did not exceed 1.5-2 meters! Contrary to expectations were found remains approximately 35 people! Also A. Kornukov claims What passengers V Korean Boeing, shot down in 1983 or was not at all or was, but obviously not 269 people!

Baggage, found on a downed plane looked Very Weird! Glasses, powder boxes, women's bags were found empty - without contents, clothes attached to a cable, passports of disappeared passengers, packed in one PACK! All found on Korean Boeing, shot down in 1983 personal belongings of passengers, fit in 6 boxes! All things raised from the bottom were transferred South Korea, But relatives dead or as it is considered dead passengers, these things are Have not received! This indicates that baggage, found on Korean Boeing, shot down in 1983 above Tatar Strait, was IMITATION.

Also later revealed from the foreign press, that relatives alleged dead passengers met them under other names! Apparently, passengers were PLANTED in Anchorage And sent to those who follow by plane! On top of that, the Korean airline that owned Korean Boeing, downed in 1983, obliged would be officially publish the list of dead passengers, A THIS HAS NOT BEEN DONE!

Now we recall that he was detained in Anchorage on 40 minutes. This was necessary, among other things, to combine aircraft flights And American satellite. Intruder flew right over objects Air defense of the USSR And essentially opened the air defense system of the USSR of the Far East! Those human remains that were found on the downed 1983 Korean Boeing, apparently, belong to OPERATORS OF ELECTRONIC INTELLIGENCE, which were on board this plane and did their job!

IN 1984 July 20th analyst American intelligence Ernie Bockman aired independent English channel, in which he said that as a result of the flight Korean Boeing V 1983 American intelligence received invaluable intelligence about the Soviet air defense of the Far East! To her managed achieve inclusion almost all communication objects who worked about 4 hours over an area of more 18 000 square kilometers !

At present, methods of obtaining intelligence significantly have changed! By using new technologies created better means observations. But manipulation of public opinion as well as various provocations, to a certain extent while applied in contemporary politics!

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Since death 269 people who were on board this aircraft, more than 30 years have passed. However, the circumstances of the tragic event have not only not been clarified since then, but rather, on the contrary, have become even more mysterious.

Boeing 747-230B Korean Air Lines

At dawn on September 1, 1983, the telephone rang in the apartment of the commander of the Far Eastern Military District, Hero of the Soviet Union, General of the Army I.M. Tretyak. The chief of staff of the district was in touch, who reported to the commander that a foreign aircraft had invaded the airspace of the USSR in the Kamchatka region.

The general later recalled:

"He flew over unusual route. This alarmed us. Parts of OSNAZ established that a radiogram was being transmitted from the aircraft to the satellite. Having deciphered it, we learned that the crew was reporting on the successful completion of the task of monitoring our submarines in the Sea of Okhotsk.

Based on this situation, I was forced to report this to the Chief of the General Staff, Marshal of the Soviet Union N.V. Ogarkov, who gave the command to force the plane to land, and if it does not comply with our commands, destroy it.

Interceptors were raised into the air. The pilot of one of them, lieutenant colonel Gennady Osipovich on orders from the ground hit the target with two missiles.

Before that, he fired several warning bursts (about 200 rounds) from a 23-millimeter airborne cannon in the direction of the airliner.

Gennady Nikolaevich Osipovich

Until the moment Osipovich made visual contact with the intruder, the Soviet military command was sure that it was dealing with the American reconnaissance aircraft PC-135. The pilot had doubts only at the moment of the attack:

“At a distance of five kilometers from the target, I received a command to destroy and fired the first rocket. Only at that distance could I really see the intruder. It was larger than the Il-76, and in outline it was somewhat reminiscent of the Tu-16. I knew all the enemy warplanes, all the reconnaissance markings, this one was like none of them. I saw that in front of me was a large plane with lights and flashing lights on.

The liner, which crashed into the water off Moneron Island southeast of Sakhalin, turned out to be a passenger Boeing 747 deviated by almost 600 miles from the course. It belonged to the South Korean company KAL and operated flight 007 on the route New York - Anchorage (Alaska) - Seoul. There were 269 passengers and 29 crew members on board.

Today, 33 years after the tragedy, there is no clear answer to the question of what actually happened in the sky over Sakhalin. According to some journalists who tried to conduct an independent investigation, the blame for the death of the passenger "Boeing" lies with the South Korean authorities, who authorized his participation in the intelligence operation.

Planned and real routes of flight 007

The American magazine Science Defense Store wrote:

“This aircraft, shortly before the incident - August 11-14, 1983, visited Andrews Air Force Base, where it was equipped with special equipment. This operation was attended not only by representatives of the National Security Agency and the CIA, but also by specialists from the US Air Force intelligence agency, the National Intelligence Agency and other departments.

Apparently, the need to maintain this special equipment explains the fact that the Boeing crew had a non-standard number - for no apparent reason, it was increased by 11 people. A 40-minute hitch with a departure from the airport in Anchorage also speaks in favor of the version of the KAL-007 spy mission.

This "unforeseen" delay allowed the liner to be near the border of the USSR at the very moment when the American reconnaissance satellite Ferret-D was orbiting Kamchatka.

Immediately after the disaster in Anchorage, a draft plan for the flight to Seoul of flight 007 was discovered, from which the unequivocal conclusion followed that the deviation of the Boeing from the route was not accidental and that the ship's commander carefully prepared for it. Radio communication between the Alaska air traffic control service and the South Korean airliner, according to the American side, was interrupted immediately after takeoff due to the simultaneous failure of all five on-board radio transmitters.

However, as soon as the plane was in the area of responsibility of the Tokyo airport, the radio traffic was suddenly restored, and until the moment of death, the co-pilot got in touch with the controller at least twenty times. But the strangest thing is that, once over Sakhalin, the passenger liner answered the automatic interrogation of Japanese radars with signals that identified it as an American reconnaissance aircraft PC-135.

A lot of other facts speak in favor of the participation of a civilian Boeing in the operation of the American special services. Yoshiro Tanaka, a retired Japanese military intelligence officer, wrote about this in the book The Truth About the KAL-007 Flight. The passenger plane, according to him, deliberately entered the airspace of the USSR in order to open the air defense system of the Far Eastern Military District.

This provocation allowed American electronic intelligence not only to verify that the intruder had been shot down, but also to fix the location of Soviet radar posts, clarify operating frequencies and record all military telephone and radio communications.

Recordings of these interceptions were later published in all American newspapers. But the flight plan of the US Navy reconnaissance aircraft, which was close to the event area, as well as data on radar surveillance of it, have not yet been made public.

The most interesting version of the events of September 1, 1983 was put forward by the French expert Michel Brun. In his opinion, the South Korean liner was not shot down by Lieutenant Colonel Osipovich near Sakhalin, but crashed not far from Japanese city Niigata. This was confirmed by the original copy of the Boeing 747 conversations received by Brun, from the analysis of which it followed that the plane was in the air for another 40 minutes after the crash.

According to the journalist, the Soviet and American authorities, by mutual agreement, concealed the fact that an explosion occurred over the territory of the USSR. air battle which resulted in the shooting down of three US Navy aircraft.

In support of his version, Brun pointed out that some of the fragments washed up by the sea on the Japanese coast turned out to be the wreckage not of a passenger Boeing, but of military aircraft. Among them was a piece of a rectangular leading edge flap that could only belong to an American F-111 or EF-111 fighter. Another fragment found - the seat of the pilot's catapult - could also belong only to a US military aircraft. In addition, parts of a military missile with English markings washed up on the shore.

Brun became interested in the direction of sea currents in the area and established that the wreckage of the Boeing shot down off Sakhalin could not possibly have ended up near Hokkaido in nine days across the current and against the prevailing winds. According to the French expert, passenger airliner indeed, he was hit by two Soviet fighter missiles, but continued to pull towards the Japanese coast and was finished off by someone 50 minutes after his "death".

Like it or not, but there is documentary evidence that on September 1, 1983, in a specific square Sea of Japan a special aircraft of the US Navy, which is usually used in rescue operations, was sent.

It is noteworthy that at the official crash site of the South Korean Boeing, Soviet divers were unable to find almost any human remains. In addition, not a single burnt thing was found, but there were plenty of things “from the garbage”: broken powder boxes, old torn clothes.

Lieutenant Colonel Osipovich, many years after the tragedy, told reporters:

“We found fragments of several bodies. As if there were 17 people on the plane. At first they said that the bodies could be eaten by fish and crustaceans. But this is simply impossible - there should have been 269 people there! At the bottom they found passports tied in a pile, tied sneakers. Do you ever put passengers' passports together on planes? Salon just filled with trash.

I believe that there were two Boeings. One - empty - went to Kamchatka, then to Sakhalin, and then I shot him down. And the passenger plane went on its own course and even then got in touch with the Japanese. But he got busted too. You can't veer nearly 600 miles off course on a plane like a Boeing. This mistake should have been noticed by both the crew and ground services.

The absence of bodies is one of the main mysteries, which can have two explanations. First, there were only military specialists on board this aircraft, but what about the fact that KAL-007 took off from Anchorage with passengers? Secondly, experienced pilots managed to land the Boeing, and people were evacuated. This assumption formed the basis of another version of events.

According to her, the passenger plane really participated in the American intelligence operation, which its passengers did not even suspect. After the launch of the missiles by Osipovich, the Boeing did not immediately crash into the ocean, but for some time was in the air and continued to communicate with the earth.

Then he made an emergency landing on the water, the Americans secretly evacuated the crew and passengers, and the Soviet military promptly planted a pre-prepared "trick": rags, small debris passenger aircraft, several fragments of corpses from the morgue. And then the propaganda machine of the US State Department joined in, accusing the "evil empire" - the USSR - of "cold-blooded destruction of an innocent civilian aircraft."

Memorial to Flight 007 ("Prayer Tower" at Cape Soya in Japan)

Marking the anniversary of the tragedy, on September 1, 2003, the British radio company BBC acknowledged that there are still many mysteries in the history of the South Korean Boeing:

“Hence, there are more and more reports that after the missile attack the plane did not lose control at all and the pilots controlled it for at least another 12 minutes. In theory, this time is quite enough for an emergency landing - there would be an airfield. The representative of the International Committee for the Rescue of the Victims of Flight KAL-007, Ben Torrey, is almost sure: such an airfield near the site of the tragedy was ...

That morning, a plane landed near Moneron Island. Ben Torrey and his supporters are sure that this plane was the same Korean "Boeing". According to him, the passengers of the flight were removed from the board of the liner and taken away in an unknown direction, and the car itself was blown up, then spreading fragments on the seabed.”

On September 1, 1983, a South Korean Boeing 747 was shot down in the sky over Sakhalin while flying over the territory of the USSR. There were 269 passengers on board. This incident is considered to be one of the most mysterious in history. civil aviation.

It is said that the creators of the Lost series (“Stay alive”) were inspired precisely by the mysterious circumstances of the death of the Korean Boeing. And this is not surprising: intriguing events and facts related to this disaster would be enough for more than one series.

The Soviet military had no doubt that the plane was on a reconnaissance mission. He walked without identification signals, deviating 500 km from the route. As a result, the Soviet military command interrupted the KAL-007 flight right over the Sakhalin village of Pravda with the help of a Su-15 fighter. However, whether this is true, we still do not know.

"Are you kidding?"

A good prelude to a series like Lost would be the next episode. About two hours before Flight KAL-007 skidded into Soviet airspace, US ground control civilian controllers exchanged phrases like this: "Hey guys, there's someone approaching the Russian air defense zone." “It can’t be, are you kidding?” - "We must warn him."

This was clearly documented by the controllers' record. The question is why the crew of the South Korean liner was never warned?

Announced happy ending

Korean Airlines Flight 007 on the New York-Anchorage-Seoul route was scheduled to arrive at the Korean airport around 6:00 am. But he was late. At 7.20, representatives of Korean Airlines came out to the worried meeting with a reassuring message that some unforeseen circumstances had arisen with the flight, but the liner had fuel for another 3 hours, so there was nothing to worry about. Officials did not provide any further details. If the meeters lived in the US and watched ABC's seven o'clock news, they would know a little more: for example, that the Korean Boeing, which was on Flight 007, disappeared from the radar. True, hardly anyone would have explained to you why the American television people were so concerned about the late Korean airliner.

Exactly at 10.00, when the Boeing should already be running out of fuel, all Korean news voiced the words of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Korea: everything is in order with the plane, it made an emergency landing on Sakhalin, the crew and passengers are in complete safety. And an hour later, Vice-President of Korean Airlines Cho, who was just setting off to return passengers of Flight 007 home, addressed the meeting in person: “In less than 24 hours, these problems will be solved, and I promise to deliver them to you.” At the same time, some details of the incident were announced in the news: the flight was allegedly forcibly landed by the Soviet Air Force on Sakhalin. Of course, this could not help but irritate the Koreans, but nevertheless, the anxiety disappeared: many of those who met went home with a calm soul. But the soul did not remain calm for long ...
An hour later, the Soviet Foreign Ministry informed the Japanese embassy in Moscow (the USSR had no diplomatic relations with South Korea) that flight 007 had not landed on Sakhalin, and Soviet officials had no information about the whereabouts of the aircraft.

Airing after death

A couple of days later, the Soviet Union officially admitted that its air defense forces shot down a plane that violated Soviet airspace, not responding to warnings. Even the exact time was set - 22.26 local time. However, there are documented recordings of the pilots of flight KAL-007 that appeared on the air 50 minutes after the destruction by the Soviet fighter. Moreover, they did not give any signals for help. This gave birth to a version that the Soviet pilot shot down some other aircraft, probably an American RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft, which looks very much like a Boeing 747. Interestingly, Gennady Osipovich, the pilot of the Su-15 that shot down the liner, was sure that his target was a non-civilian aircraft. In particular, Osipovich expresses doubt that such a large aircraft as the Boeing 747 could have been shot down with just two R-60 missiles, which he fired at him.

Where are the passengers?

There were 269 people on board - passengers and crew members. However, not a single body was found by the search expedition: only minor fragments. It is curious that the missing bodies of the dead excited the imagination of some American journalists: a version appeared in the Western press that the Soviet military burned the bodies in a crematorium to cover their tracks.

But let's get back to the direct evidence. One of the Soviet divers who took part in the search recalled: “I did not miss a single descent. I have a very clear impression: the plane was filled with garbage, and there were no people there. Why? Well, if a plane crashes, even a small one. As a rule, there should be suitcases, handbags, at least suitcase handles ... And there were things that, I think, normal people should not carry on an airplane. Well, let's say, a roll of amalgam - like from a garbage heap ... All clothes, like from a landfill - pieces are torn out of it ... We have been working for almost a month! ... There were also few wearable things - there were very few jackets, raincoats, shoes. And what they found was some kind of rip!”

All this gave reason to say that the liner, discovered a few weeks after the disaster, is a falsification.

"Evidence" that sailed to the Japanese islands

A week after the disappearance of the liner, small fragments of the Boeing, pieces of skin, the remains of luggage were thrown onto the coast of the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. Experts put forward the version that the “material evidence” was brought to Japan from the area Soviet Sakhalin where the plane was shot down. True, there was one "but". The fact is that in September 1983 in the Sakhalin region there was not a single current that would drive waves from south to north. Detailed weather reports stated that strong wind blew completely into opposite side. In other words, the wreckage of the aircraft could only have entered Japan from the south, not from the north.

"Crimes against humanity"

US President Ronald Reagan, upon learning of the sinking of the South Korean liner, called the incident "a crime against humanity that must never be forgotten." Moreover, Washington had its own account for the actions of the Soviet air defense, since US Congressman Larry MacDonald, a temperamental anti-communist and very promising politician, died in the crash. However, for unknown reasons, the offense was forgotten by the American side very quickly. George Shultz, the US Secretary of State, got down to business with great enthusiasm at the beginning: a group of the best investigators from the Transportation Safety Administration was sent to Alaska to investigate the tragedy. However, after only a few days, the investigators returned to Washington without starting an investigation.

"Are you kidding?"

This was clearly documented by the controllers' record. The question is why the crew of the South Korean liner was never warned?

Announced happy ending

Airing after death

Where are the passengers?

All this gave reason to say that the liner, discovered a few weeks after the disaster, is a falsification.

"Evidence" that sailed to the Japanese islands

A week after the disappearance of the liner, small fragments of the Boeing, pieces of skin, the remains of luggage were thrown onto the coast of the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. Experts put forward the version that the "material evidence" was brought to Japan from the area of Soviet Sakhalin, where the liner was shot down. True, there was one "but". The fact is that in September 1983 in the Sakhalin region there was not a single current that would drive waves from south to north. Detailed weather reports claimed that a strong wind was blowing in the opposite direction. In other words, the wreckage of the aircraft could only have entered Japan from the south, not from the north.

"Crimes against humanity"

Two weeks before the disaster

The loss of interest in the fate of the KAL-007 flight among the Americans coincided with the news that a South Korean passenger aircraft with tail number NL-7442 was at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington for three days - from August 11 to 14, 1983. It is at this airbase, by the way, that the American presidential liner is still based - “Air Force One of the United States”. Interestingly, the technological maintenance of the South Korean aircraft on Andrews was carried out in the hangar of a company that supplied special electronic equipment. It remains only to add that it is the board with the number HK-7442 that will make the ill-fated flight on September 1, 1983 with the dissonant and at the same time symbolic name -KAL-007 ...

For two and a half hours, the South Korean plane was in Soviet airspace, deviating 600 kilometers from the route in the direction of our secret military facilities.
Just 90 seconds - and he would have been over international waters. Some one and a half minutes! .. But the command to defeat was already given, and military pilot Gennady Osipovich pulled the trigger. “Start made. Target destroyed,” our pilot's report, recorded by American radio interceptors, was played all over the world. Only the government of the USSR was silent. “Case KAL-007” was classified by the Soviet secret services for 50 years. So did their American colleagues from the CIA. The stamp “top secret”, despite the global geopolitical changes, has not been removed from it so far.
- You can write anything - you still can’t get to the bottom of the truth, documented. There are too many interested parties in this tragedy - politicians, military, special services ... And the truth is not profitable for any of them. And this applies not only to our country, but also to the USA, Japan, South Korea - believe me, the history of KAL-007 does not paint anyone. - This man was silent for 20 years, and he knows what he is talking about. Only a few high-ranking Soviet officials had access to all the materials of the investigation into the Sakhalin tragedy, and our interlocutor was one of them. “When it comes to the security of the state, there is no statute of limitations,” he remains convinced. Something must happen on April 20, 1978. Severomorsk, the main base of the Northern Fleet, air defense command post.
“Target found! The target violated the airspace north of Severomorsk and is now flying over Murmansk. He does not respond to inquiries, ”the duty officer reports.
“Raise the duty link of interceptor fighters and force the intruder to land,” the command follows.
"Boeing-707", the same airline KAL. Passenger flight Paris - Anchorage passing through the polar region. The plane “got lost” and ended up over the Kola Peninsula instead of Alaska. Directly on the course - the storage bases of Soviet nuclear submarines. Gremikha, Vidyaevo, Zapadnaya Litsa, Severomorsk, Polyarny - after the death of the Kursk, these names are known to the whole world, and then they were super-secret military facilities.
Both from the ground and from the air on the international frequency, clear instructions follow the “Korean”: “You violated the airspace of the USSR. Follow me”, “land the car”. For ten minutes (!) Pilot Bosov on the "Su-15" bypasses the intruder from all sides, flashing 50-100 meters from the pilot's cabin. These maneuvers are seen by passengers - only the crew “does not notice” them. Finally, the Boeing turns sharply to the west and flies towards Finland. A new command follows from the CP: “Bring down the intruder”. A rocket flies into the tail of the Boeing and blows off part of the wing. The commander of the liner masterfully puts the wounded car on the frozen lake. The result - two dead, 13 wounded. The most experienced pilot Kim Chang Kyu, who flew over the polar route more than 70 times, “turns on the fool” and answers all questions that he “didn’t hear anything”
Years later, analysts will call this flight a trial. The USSR will not wait for either an apology from South Korea, or a proper response from ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization), even the crew will not be punished.
1983, Far East, Kuril Islands. The US 7th Fleet launched exercises 250-300 km east of Urup, Iturup, Kunashir and Shikotan. Along state border water high seas dozens of ships plowed, among which there were two aircraft carriers, each with 100-120 multifunctional carrier-based aircraft. Fighters took off from the deck one by one and circled in one zone. Suddenly, 3-4 sides separated from the total mass and rushed towards the USSR.
“This year was just crazy, we had no doubt: something must happen,” says Army General Anatoly Kornukov, who at that time commanded the 40th Air Force Air Division, scattered across the Far East. - Since the beginning of 1983, our division has made more than 4 thousand sorties from the duty forces - this means that every day 4-5 aircraft impudently "probe" the reliability of the borders. In addition, along the Kuril ridge, "RS-135" - US reconnaissance aircraft - were constantly patrolling. As soon as our duty fighter units rose into the sky, they immediately turned back.
The most daring breakthrough was in April 83rd. From the aircraft carrier "Enterprises" to the state border in the south of the Kuriles, four "F-14" rushed, "scribbled" over the disputed islands and slipped back with impunity. Then the air defense officers received the first number: is it really necessary to protect secret military bases, where hundreds of nuclear submarines are stationed and only received strategic missiles?
When, at dawn on September 1, 1983, pilot Osipovich received the order to “destroy the target”, neither the pilot himself nor his commanders had any doubts: it’s impossible to get lost HERE. Is the ICAO report a bluff? Before me is the final report of the ICAO, which twice - in 1983 and 1993 - conducted an investigation into the death of a South Korean Boeing. It is believed that “flight 007” is calculated here literally in seconds. Actually, on the basis of this document, hundreds of articles have been written about last hours liner life. The results are well known: the crew got lost, and the Soviet military could not distinguish between an ordinary civilian aircraft and a reconnaissance aircraft either from the ground or in the sky. The pilots of KAL 007 did not obey any of the demands of the Soviet side, and then the command was given to destroy the intruder. The culprits are the pilots and Corian Airlines, which paid for insurance to the relatives of the victims. It was then that the point was put in this matter. The conclusions of the commission suited everyone, but did not bring KAL-007 flight closer to the solution.
- This investigation is nothing more than a formality. This is the opinion of many MK experts who took part in the investigation of the Sakhalin tragedy.
September 2, 1983, Moscow. Less than a day after the emergency, a representative commission of generals and officers of the General Staff, the air force, air defense, navy and the Central Inspectorate for Flight Safety flew to the Far East.
- The fact that the "flight" of "flight 007" was not accidental became completely clear by mid-September. We analyzed in detail the data of our air defense posts, and then, taking into account the wind speed and a lot of other data, we “restored” its flight from the very beginning - from takeoff from the Anchorage airfield to the place of death near Moneron Island, - the MK expert, a navigator from 40 years of experience, personally involved in the investigations of both incidents with South Korean Boeings (in 1978 and 1983). - When our "laying" was rechecked several times, it turned out that the "Boeing" did not stray from the given route - it simply did not stay on it for a single minute! Immediately after takeoff, another course was taken - more by 12 degrees, and it did not change throughout the flight. This trajectory passed through Kamchatka, the Sea of Okhotsk, the southern part of Sakhalin and ended up in Seoul.
Route R 20 - the most convenient and shortest air way from western Alaska to the eastern coast of Japan. The “eastern” part of the flight is controlled by the American ground services of Anchorage, the “western” part is controlled by Japanese controllers in Tokyo. There are nine control points between Anchorage and Seoul, which means that, in addition to reliable and several times duplicated instruments, the liner is also operated by ground services. R 20 passes through the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, 50 kilometers from the Far Eastern air border of the USSR. How much in addition to civilian American and Japanese radar stations (RLS) "supervise" this space - there is a great secret. In the yard - the beginning of the 80s, new wave “cold war”...“ Quite reliable copies ”When both“ black ”boxes from the dead aircraft were raised and deciphered, it turned out that the entire Boeing course - all 5 hours 20 minutes of the flight - were unchanged and exceeded R 20 by the same 12 degrees .
- "Boeing" should have been overwhelmed even in Kamchatka, but the northern companies were sitting on the hills without fuel, and the radar stations could not accurately detect the target due to incomprehensible interference, - says Army General Anatoly Kornukov. - As a result, on command, they raised two Su-15s and sent them in the other direction. When sorted out, it turned out that the distance between them is more than 400 km.
The most surprising thing is that the pilot Bosov set off in pursuit of the Boeing - the same one who overwhelmed the Korean five years ago over the Kola Peninsula. “Oh, if I knew that this was another “guest” from the same nest, I would have chased him to dry tanks,” he said then in his hearts.
Anyway, let's get back to controllers. The fact is that the Americans and the Japanese, for the second investigation in 1993, allegedly provided the commission with tapes of radio communications from their ground stations. Allegedly, because instead of the “not preserved” (or after all immediately destroyed? - E.M.) originals, “quite reliable copies” were presented.
Before getting to Sakhalin, KAL 007 spent two hours in the US Air Force zones, violating all flight laws in the most brazen way. And according to “quite reliable copies,” not a single US Air Force observation post even tried to contact him. The fighters did not take off either. It turns out one of two things: either they saw, but the crew was not warned about the fatal deviation. Or knew about this flight in advance. So, they could also guess how it all could end.
“Both then and now I had no doubts about the true intentions of the South Korean Boeing,” says Army General Valentin Varennikov, at that time the head of the Main Operations Directorate of the USSR General Staff, who was responsible for all types of combat duty, incl. and air defense troops. - On the night of September 1, a whole reconnaissance complex was deployed and functioned in the Far East - a Boeing “accidentally” flown in, RS-135 scouts, several US Navy ships, ground tracking points in Hawaii, the Aleutian Islands, Japan and South Korea. And, finally, the Ferret reconnaissance satellite - it appeared over Kamchatka and Sakhalin just at the moment when the Boeing was flying there. They needed to “open” our air defense system in the zone of important strategic facilities. The military then acted as it should, we had only one miscalculation: we could not use our main weapon - the truth. “We would have shot him down sooner” Instead of telling the truth, the Soviet government was silent for almost a week - as always, the statesmen were afraid of responsibility. “It is necessary to take the most severe sanctions against the soulless murderers of 269 people,” the whole world buzzed indignantly. “An unknown foreign plane invaded the sovereign space of the Soviet Union and left towards the sea,” the world community was “reassured” by this note in Pravda. Small letters, without a signature - it means that the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee was preparing. Sanctions followed immediately. In the USSR, flights of all airlines (except for the countries of the Warsaw Pact and Air France) were stopped, canceled regular flights Aeroflot. Finally announced official version Soviet side: a brazen provocation by the CIA, a reconnaissance plane was shot down in the sky.
- The UN Extraordinary Assembly, in which 136 countries took part, was already convened on September 15 - an unprecedented case before, because it usually takes at least a year to prepare an event of this kind, - says Anatoly Brylov, at that time Deputy Executive Secretary of the USSR Commission on ICAO affairs. - It was not only about the removal or imposition of new sanctions, but also about the payment of multi-million and even multi-billion sums as compensation.
The Americans argued that we knew that the plane was civilian, but they could not provide convincing evidence. Ours is a reconnaissance flight, but there is no evidence either - no reconnaissance equipment was found on the Boeing.
And the truth was really on our side - the flight, without any doubt, was intentional. And such examples in aviation are well known: it is enough to recall Powers, who “walked” half the country or Rust, who landed on Red Square (pilots do not call him differently). It's just that everyone's intentions are different. The intentional violation of the Boeing was convincingly proven as early as the beginning of 1984. On the Il-76, our pilots repeated both of its flights - along the R 20 highway and the real route. But our country was not even able to properly use these evidence. As a result, all sanctions against the USSR were lifted and material claims were no longer made. “If they took him for a spy, why did he fly over their territory for two and a half hours? Our air defenses would have shot him down immediately, ”they were only surprised on the sidelines of the UN.
- Flights of South Korean aircraft in 1978 and 1983 have common roots, although neither one nor the other has ever really been investigated, - says Vladimir Podberezny, a participant in the investigation into the death of KAL 007 in the USSR Commission on ICAO Affairs. - In June 1985, the most valuable CIA agent in the Soviet Union was arrested, saving the CIA, according to conservative estimates, 50 billion dollars. This is the super spy Adolf Tolkachev, who gave the Americans invaluable information in the field of avionics: it was about electronic tracking and countermeasures equipment, including new radars. Then, in the mid-90s, another spy showed up in the United States - Viktor Sheimov, who disappeared in May 1980 and recently opened a company to develop computer security systems with former CIA director James Woolsey. In the Union, he was engaged in missile guidance systems from satellites, and then worked in the 8th Main Directorate of the KGB, was a leading specialist in the field of cryptography and communications security. It was this information under the leadership of the CIA that the “Koreans” checked first on the Kola Peninsula, and then in the Far East. True, in order to prove this, it is necessary to declassify the archives of the special services, and so far no one is going to do this.
Versions or inventions Over the years, the military pilot Nikolai Osipovich, who shot down the South Korean Boeing, was asked dozens of times if he had seen that it was a civilian aircraft.
- It looked like a civilian, very similar, but any military aircraft can be camouflaged. I am still sure that it was a scout, he replies.
The RS-135 reconnaissance aircraft also appears in the ICAO report. According to international investigators, he missed the Boeing at the 4th hour of the flight. This was recorded by Soviet radars and the Americans “did not notice” again - although before that they themselves had provided the same radio interception of Osipovich with the ground, where the position of “RS-135” was specified and the famous final phrase “target destroyed” sounded. Even “quite reliable copies” have not been preserved on this score. From here, in fact, the birth of the most fantastic versions of the death of “flight 007” began.
The simplest of all - Osipovich really shot down the RS-135, and the Korean Boeing never strayed from the route, because it flew along the R 20 highway all the time. Then the data reported to them by the dispatchers is understandable. He was destroyed either by the Japanese or the Americans, who also mistook him for a scout, or, according to the “provocation” scenario, he should have been shot down anyway. To blame everything on the Russians.
Another version is an air battle near Hokkaido between Soviet and American fighters. And, finally, the third - very popular with our generals - except for the crew, there were no passengers at all in the Boeing. That's why they didn't find the bodies. Divers really found only a bunch of fragments from the liner - no engines, no seats, let alone the remains of people ...
- Will the world soon forget the death of the Korean liner? - in the midst of a severe political crisis, Andrei Gromyko, then Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, was asked.
"I'm sure of it," he answered without a moment's hesitation.
I would like to argue with the veteran diplomat, but it seems that the time has not yet come for a truly independent investigation into the deaths of 269 people ...

We didn't shoot down the South Korean Boeing.
New details of the shocking story of 1983. It was after the death of the "lost" over the territory of the Soviet Union "Boeing" that our country received the title of "Evil Empire".

French author Michel Brun believes that on September 1, 1983, a real air battle took place over the Far East of the USSR between nine US military aircraft and Soviet fighters. Boeing became an accidental victim of this unknown war...

Official version of Moscow

On the night of September 1, 1983, a South Korean passenger plane entered the airspace of the Soviet Union over Kamchatka. He flew over our secret objects, making evasive maneuvers from Russian air defense radars, and did not respond to requests, exchanging signals with an American RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft. Having flown over Kamchatka, the Boeing flew over Sakhalin. In the end, after unsuccessful attempts to contact the crew by radio and land the intruder, the Soviet command ordered it to be shot down. The sentence was carried out by Gennady Osipovich, the pilot of the Su-15 interceptor. A South Korean liner crashed into the water off Moneron Island southeast of Sakhalin.

US official version

The American version differs from the Soviet one only in that the crew of the Korean "Boeing" of the New York-Seoul flight simply strayed off course and did not consult the American reconnaissance aircraft along the way. And the cannibalistic communist regime ordered to kill everyone.

Many compare the sinking of the KAL-007 flight to the sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania by a German submarine in 1915, after which Germany appeared in the eyes of the whole world as a disgusting killer. It was after the story with the "Boeing" of the government Western Europe agreed to the deployment of American medium-range missiles on their soil.

Michel Bruhn version

The Frenchman Michel Brun compared the messages of the Japanese and Americans on that ill-fated day. The Japanese testimonies are especially valuable: the drama played out within the radius of view of military and civilian radars on the island of Hokkaido.

On the morning of September 1, the Japanese who have a powerful radar in Wakkanai ( north island Hokkaido), reported that they recorded how the Russians forced the liner to land at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. And the fact that the plane was destroyed was talked about in Tokyo and Washington. The Japan Self-Defense Forces Agency said the plane was shot down at 3:29, while US Secretary of State George Shultz said the time was 3:38. The Japanese reported that the liner was pursued by a MiG-23 fighter, and in Washington they called it a Su-15. After carefully analyzing the reports of the North Japanese newspapers, the Frenchman came to the conclusion that there were several intruder aircraft.

The destruction of the aircraft was observed in Japan. Based on observations made by Japanese air force self-defense (JASDF) in Wakkanai, it can be concluded that the Korean aircraft was shot down by an air-to-air missile fired by a Soviet MiG-23 interceptor. This conclusion is based on the radar records of the Korean airliner and Soviet interceptors, as well as on the analysis of radio communications between Soviet aircraft and ground stations guidance that was intercepted by JASDF intelligence. “The American version of events is completely different from our data,” General Hayashi, head of the JASDF Air Defense Department, commented at a press conference.

Strange debris

Gradually, the evidence began to add up one to the other. For example, the wreckage of a Boeing shot down near Sakhalin could not have washed ashore in Hokkaido in nine days, across the current and against the prevailing winds.

Michel Brune, after analyzing data from Japanese radar records, convicted the Americans of forgery. The calculations said that the South Korean flight, according to the American maps of the incident, was flying faster than these Boeing 747s usually fly. And the course of the aircraft turned out to be somehow wildly broken, and each time the Americans provided the press with corrected maps of the ill-fated flight.

The version that there were several planes found more and more confirmation. The wreckage nailed by the sea to Japan turned out to be the wreckage of a non-civilian vehicle.

“Fragment number 31 - a piece of a flap from a small or medium-sized aircraft. The flap is interesting in that its leading edge is rectangular. The leading edges of most aircraft are streamlined. The only plane with square-edged flaps is the high-tech, two-seat F-111 fighter or its electronic warfare twin, the EF-111. Chip number 31 has a layered structure made of aluminum sheets and honeycomb material. A two-inch wide mark parallel to the leading edge was made with the flap brake in the extended position. The brake holds the flap in the extended position, acting as a vibration damper. Number 31 also has another mark left at a 60 degree angle to the leading edge. This line characterizes a supersonic aircraft with variable wing geometry.

This detail could not belong to a passenger slug.

"Photograph in fig. 6 shows another wreck that could only belong to a military aircraft and only American made. It bears the number 34, which is a McDonnell-Douglas ACESII Zero Zero or similar pilot catapult seat (see fig. 6), with the powder charges fired. The Pentagon specialist to whom I showed the photo immediately recognized the seat, even before I told him where it came from. The significance of all these facts lies not only in the fact that we are dealing with the crash of an American military aircraft north of Moneron Island, but also in the fact that the pilot, whose plane was hit, managed to eject and parachute down.

“The fragment was found on September 14 in Abashiri, further east along the coast of Hokkaido, about halfway between the town of Mombetsu and the peninsula in the far east. Abashiri is south of the point where, six years later, a Japanese fishing boat, fishing solo over a sandy bottom, accidentally caught a fragment of a titanium wing in its net. This piece turned out owned by the aircraft SR-71 ("Blackbird"), an American high-speed high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. The baffle could have sunk to the bottom in the same disaster, but we have no way of ascertaining exactly when this fragment hit the water.”

nine skeletons

What debris did the Russians find then? Brun became interested in the testimonies of Soviet military sailors who were professionally engaged in underwater searches for the remnants of the disaster. And as a result, he discovered that they found the skeletons of downed US military aircraft at the bottom.

“The Pacific Fleet was under the command of Admiral Sidorov, who was in charge of Soviet search work. During a meeting in Moscow with the families of the victims on March 11, 1993, Admiral Sidorov said that as soon as the alert was raised, the Soviet fleet immediately sent a group of military vessels to the area where the plane was believed to have crashed. The area was easily identified by the presence of debris floating on the surface. Boundaries were set and the area was marked with buoys. Thirty-seven minutes after the crash, a small Soviet ship appeared on the scene and small pieces of debris were raised. But there were no bodies."

If a small craft is on stage within 37 minutes, the crash site should be close to Nevelsk. If we allow for a minimum of ten or twelve minutes to warn the crews, to enable them to board the boats, start the engines and select anchors, this leaves only fifteen minutes for the passage from Nevelsk to the crash site, which, therefore, should not be further a few miles from Nevelsk. This is exactly the place where the plane crashed, indicated on the map that President Yeltsin handed over to representatives of Korea, ICAO and relatives of those killed in Moscow on October 14, 1992. ... In the first few days after the disaster, intensive search operations were carried out in a narrow, lenticular area, located entirely within Soviet territorial waters, approximately six nautical miles from the coast of Sakhalin and centered on a point with coordinates 46 degrees. 35' north latitude, 141 degrees. 45' East longitude, along the 100-meter isobath...

On September 26, the Soviets handed over to the "affected party" the first shipment of what they said were the floating wreckage of "KAL-007". ...Among the wreckage, which had nothing to do with KAL, were two life rafts (one for ten people, the other single), structural elements such as air brakes from a supersonic fighter, pieces of the fuselage painted in white, blue and gold (US Navy colors), and underwing weapon pylon. These were the wreckage of military aircraft found on 13, 16 and 17 September. But passenger Boeing 747s don't have life rafts on board (they use EVACUATION CHUTCHES instead)! These aircraft are not painted white, blue or gold, although some naval aviation aircraft are painted in such colors. Passenger "Boeings" also do not have air brakes and pylons for airborne weapons!

By September 17, the Soviets had found as many as three crash sites scattered over an area of approximately 30 square miles...”

Mysterious photo

Quite unexpectedly, Brun stumbled upon another trail. “The story begins in 1983, at the small border post Pereputye, south of Nevelsk. The commander of the border post and political worker was Lieutenant Belov. French television reporter of Russian origin Misha Lobko was on Sakhalin in June 1983, where he questioned Lieutenant Belov. Lieutenant Belov recalled:

The orders were straightforward: “Destroy everything and confirm with a report. Never talk about it." They arrived in a large 10-ton ZIL-131 truck. They asked: "Where is this hole?" I showed them. They unloaded the truck into the pit with the help of my soldiers. They rolled a barrel and filled everything with gasoline. Then they set it all on fire. The fire burned for two hours. When everything was burned, we bulldozer leveled what was left. Then we covered everything with earth. I telephoned my superiors in Nevelsk and reported. I am sure that the names and ranks of the chiefs were fictitious, but, nevertheless, I said: "Everything is destroyed." That's all.

I met Misha Lobko in Paris in February 1994 and he told me something else. In November 1992, the pit at the Crossroads was again "found" and opened up. A government commission arrived and ordered that all metal fragments with identification numbers be taken. Then the hole was closed. It was reopened in January 1993, and all the remaining wreckage was taken out and stored in a hangar in Kholmsk, where FSK sorted it and sent it to Moscow. In March of the same year, the rest was again buried in this funnel near the Crossroads. In June 1993, the pit was excavated for the third time, just at the time when Misha Lobko was there. This time all the wreckage was taken from her and sent to the same hangar in Kholmsk as before. Misha Lobko filmed the wreckage with a video camera before the FGC sorted it and sent it to Moscow.”

In 1994, Lobko managed to buy from one of the Russian officials a photo from a thick wallet, which was also dumped in a pit near the Crossroads, but which did not burn down. It contained a photograph of a Korean girl. “Due to the fact that this photo hurts human feelings, the Japanese TV station TBS, for which Misha Lobko worked at the time, aired a photo of this little girl on the evening news program. That same evening, someone called a TV station in Seoul and gave the name of the girl and her father. Her father, a military man, disappeared in 1983. When TBS heard about this turn of events, they immediately tried to find out more, but they couldn't get any further. They were thwarted at every turn. There were rumors that this little girl's father was not aboard KAL-007. He was an officer in the South Korean army and worked for the Korean intelligence service KCIA (KCIA). It disappeared at the same time as the Korean airliner and was never heard from again." But the point was that among the passengers the lost flight this person was not. (Brun does not reveal the name of the deceased.)

He concludes that the Korean CIA officer, who disappeared in September 1983, was assigned to the crew of the American RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft as a reconnaissance officer who knows the Korean language. It was this aircraft that was supposed to portray a passenger liner that allegedly flew into Soviet borders, and conduct radio communications in Korean on behalf of the pilots of the KAL-007 flight. Moreover, the RC-135 was converted from a civilian Boeing 707. Electronic reconnaissance aircraft often have language specialists in their crew of 25-30, although they are usually US citizens.

Downed off the coast of Japan!

The generally accepted version was bursting at the seams. And the analysis of the radar records left no trace of her. The wild zigzags that allegedly flew the dead South Korean Boeing also found their explanation: they were several planes that came from different directions. At least two Soviet fighters destroyed two aircraft. Both of them, and the MiG-23 (a fighter spotted by the Japanese), and the Su-15 (a fighter with the call sign "805", according to the Americans) shot down the plane - one at 03:25, the other at 03:26:20. And both shot down were also combat aircraft: this can be seen from the calculation of their speed according to Japanese locators.

And what about flight KAL-007? He calmly flew along his track, not turning anywhere. The Frenchman came to the conclusion that someone wanted to hide the fact that the Korean liner was shot down not near Moneron Island, in Soviet waters, as is commonly believed, but 400 miles to the south, not far from the Japanese city of Niigata. That is off the coast of Japan! With the dispatcher in that city, as it turned out, the co-pilot of the deceased "Boeing" conducted a normal radio exchange forty minutes after the officially recognized time of the death of the liner from Soviet rocket. Brun himself traveled to Niigata in 1989 and, after interviewing witnesses on the coast, established that the sea also nailed debris here, and these were light cellular structures made of passenger cabin airliner. And soon he himself discovered such a piece!

“Niigata was the next checkpoint on the official KAL-007 route to Seoul. Thus, the plane flew almost all the way to the checkpoint, where it could again get into contact on the air, as if nothing unexpected had happened on its route. Too bad he never reached Niigata. But even so, it seemed to me that there was a strong possibility that he was talking on the radio even after, as we were told, he was shot down.

And they shot him down in the heat of a real battle. And who hit?

Hot summer 1983

There is nothing surprising in the fact that September 1, 1983 was a dramatic day. That year, the Americans began a massive campaign to intimidate Moscow: the "hawk" Ronald Reagan was in power in Washington. Here is what the French says

“On April 4 of that year (1983), two squadrons of fighters from the aircraft carriers Midway and Enterprise violated Soviet airspace over Zeleny Island in the Kuril chain. They penetrated more than 30 km into the depths of Soviet territory and practiced approaching ground targets for 15 minutes. At that time, Soviet interceptors did not rise into the air. Feeling that this was a deliberate provocation, the air base commander kept his planes on the ground. General Tretyak, commander of the Far Eastern Military District, later asked the air base commander:

Why didn't you put the planes on combat alert?

Because I didn't want to start a war. This could lead to a major armed conflict, and it seemed to me that I could not risk starting a full-scale war.

Someone else, unlike you, might not think about it.

The commander of the air base had every reason to worry about the beginning of the third world war associated with the beginning of American provocations in the western part of the Pacific Ocean. The flights over Soviet territory mentioned by Osipovich were part of a larger operation. In the spring of 1982, two aircraft carrier groups sailed just outside Petropavlovsk and entered the Sea of Okhotsk, on the shores of which there were bases of Soviet missile submarines, the main component of the Soviet deterrence forces. In the spring of 1983, three American carrier groups, escorted by B-52 bombers, AWACS, F-15 fighters, submarines, and anti-submarine aircraft, made their first appearance in the usual patrol areas of the Soviet submarine fleet. The aircraft carrier Midway, observing all precautions, with radio transmitters and all electronic systems turned off, entered Soviet territorial waters near Petropavlovsk.

The air base commander was not punished for his actions. There is evidence that in June of the same year in the same area there were massive and constant violations of Soviet airspace by fighters based on American aircraft carriers. We do not know what lessons the United States learned from these incidents and from the lack of a Soviet response. Perhaps the Americans thought that there would be no reaction to the August 31st provocation either. If so, they underestimated the lessons the Soviets had learned from the events of April and June.

By August 31, the Russians had placed MiG-31s in the area, giving pilots permission to leave the planes in order to increase their combat range, and also took other preparatory measures and were determined to respond vigorously to new provocations. And this provocation happened - on the night of September 1, 1983.

Fight in the night

The Americans started a psychological intelligence operation with air incursions into the space of the USSR. The point was to once again probe the Russian air defenses and force them to turn on the radars, collecting valuable information about their characteristics. At the same time, the United States also wanted to get acquainted with the capabilities of the then latest MiG-31 fighters. To do this, the operation was combined with the passage of the American spy satellite "Ferret-D" over the area. And the crew of the ill-fated Korean liner followed a given route.

On the night of September 1, a number of aircraft violated Soviet airspace over Sakhalin, some of them crossed Kamchatka, and some - the Kuril Islands ridge to the south of it. The invasion involved EF-111 electronic warfare aircraft, Thunderbird reconnaissance aircraft, RC-135 spy planes, and flying tankers. Obviously, the Americans expected to "hammer" our air defense system with radio interference. But the Soviets, who were then in full military strength, brought up air reinforcements from the mainland and even two A-50 flying radars from the Vanino air base (analogous to the American AWACS aircraft), arranging a uniform defeat for the Americans.

"...Exactly Russian documents submitted to ICAO for the 1993 report... provide the most dramatic proof of the extent of the Sakhalin events and allow us to understand the apparent contradictions between Japanese and American data.

Most of the Russian documents are transcripts of conversations between various ground command posts on Sakhalin, ranging from the commander-in-chief of aviation in the Far Eastern District, General Kamensky, down to lower-ranking officers. In fact, the Russian documents reveal most strikingly that the events began at 4:00 Sakhalin time and continued without interruption for almost three hours, until the sun rose at 06:49. Pilot Osipovich, as well as the pilot of the 805th, shot down one intruder a few minutes earlier and landed shortly before sunrise. The Russian transcript gives us evidence of several violations, interceptions, and use of weapons on the intruders that took place over a sufficiently long period of time, since Soviet AWACS and reinforcements sent from the mainland managed to approach Sakhalin and engage in battle. In other words, the transcripts give us evidence of large-scale military clashes, the intensity of which is confirmed by material and documentary sources, which I consider in other chapters. The credibility of the interpretation of what actually happened is based on facts.

“But when we start writing a coherent story about what happened over Sakhalin, we are faced with a difficult task ...”, the French researcher writes. Nevertheless, he paints a breathtaking picture of the air battle, in the first two hours of which the Americans lost four aircraft. According to a French researcher, Gennady Osipovich, who is credited with the destruction of a civilian airliner, took to the air twice on the night and early morning of September 1, filling up two opponents: an RC-135 electronic reconnaissance aircraft and another machine that looks like a Soviet Tu-16 bomber. (Perhaps it was a B-52.) Moreover, Major Osipovich flew not on an old Su-15, as is commonly believed, but on the newest MiG-31. And Osipovich also reports that the enemy called him on the radio in Russian, trying to confuse him.

What does the South Korean flight "KAL-007" have to do with it? Michel Brun is convinced that one of the US electronic intelligence planes depicted a passenger airliner. On board was just a Korean intelligence officer.

Who shot down the real liner?

Who then destroyed the passenger liner with passengers on board? Apparently it was destroyed by mistake. The night battle over Sakhalin and Kamchatka seemed to many to be a possible start of a war between the US and the USSR. The Japanese Air Force was also alerted. Everyone's nerves were on edge. “The plane was out of range of the Soviet interceptors, so their attack north of Niigata seems unlikely. A catastrophe as a result of the damage inflicted by Soviet fighters during the skirmish over Sakhalin also seems unlikely. KAL-007 exchanged the usual, if cryptic, messages with other KAL aircraft much later after it had flown over Sakhalin. He did not send a single distress signal and never reported any problems. The Korean airliner disappeared suddenly, minutes before passing over Niigata, for no apparent reason. Or the airliner was shot down by the Americans, who decided that it was a Soviet aircraft, intending to make retribution for what happened to the north. Or it was shot down by the Japanese, who thought it was a Soviet plane that threatened to drag Japan into a deepening armed conflict between the Russians and the Americans.”

Well, and then both in the USA and in the USSR they decided to hide the truth about the real air battle. The Japanese have joined this conspiracy of silence. But on the other hand, the United States quickly figured out how to portray the death of a passenger plane and what propaganda benefits to extract. And this operation went brilliantly. “Behind this lay the growing arrogance of American policy in the spring and summer of 1983 and the unwillingness of the Soviets to publicly challenge it. If it became known that the Soviets had shot down several American warplanes, there would be a reasonably strong possibility that public opinion, regardless of the circumstances under which it happened, would lead the administration to resign. And the risk of nuclear war, which would have been created by Operation KAL-007, would have intensified,” writes the French researcher.

The passivity of Moscow in this situation and its obvious play into the hands of Washington remains a mystery. Be that as it may, we are looking forward to the publication of Michel Brun's book in Russia. It is all the more relevant in connection with the events of September 11, 2001, in which the same “passenger” aircraft were the main actors.

CIA decoy

(Vasily GOLOVNIN)

A former high-ranking Japanese military intelligence officer, based on his own investigation, claims that the South Korean Boeing 747, shot down on September 1, 1983 in the airspace of the USSR, was on an assignment from the American special services. This is stated in the book "The Truth About the Flight of KAL 007", which was written by retired officer Yoshiro Tanaka, who until his retirement led the electronic listening of Soviet military facilities from the Wakkanai tracking station in the very north of Hokkaido. It was this object, by the way, that recorded the negotiations of Soviet pilots who, on the night of August 31 to September 1, 1983, were pursuing the Boeing-747 of the South Korean airline KAL, which had far invaded the airspace of Sakhalin during a flight from the American city of Anchorage to Seoul.

Tanaka bases his statements on an analysis of data on the extremely strange route of this liner, as well as on information about Soviet radio communications in connection with this incident. These materials were, in particular, provided by Russia to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in 1991.

As a result of the study, a former Japanese intelligence officer came to the conclusion that the American intelligence services deliberately sent a South Korean passenger plane into Soviet airspace in order to cause a stir in the Soviet air defense system and reveal its classified and usually "silent" objects. As Tanaka emphasizes, the United States at that time made every effort to collect information about Soviet air defense in the Far East, which in 1982 was modernized and significantly strengthened.

American reconnaissance planes had previously regularly violated Soviet airspace in the area where the South Korean Boeing 747 crashed, but they could fly there only for a very short time. That is why, according to the Japanese expert, a passenger liner was chosen for the operation, which, according to the US intelligence services, could fly with impunity for many hours over Soviet air defense facilities.

As a result, "Boeing-747" after long stay in the airspace of the USSR was shot down. All 269 people on board were killed, and the incident itself made it possible for the United States to launch a campaign of international condemnation of "Soviet barbarism" unprecedented in scope and effectiveness.

In 1993 international organization Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO) "came to the conclusion" that the Boeing 747 entered Soviet airspace due to a navigational error and was shot down because it was mistaken for a reconnaissance aircraft. However, many materials on this case, in particular the Japanese radio interception data, are still kept secret.