Instructions related to the Sakhalin air crash

The U.S. statement pointed out that in the early morning of August 11, flight KAL007 flying from Anchorage to Seoul accidentally entered the airspace of the former Soviet Union’s Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin Island. The malfunction is an accident rather than a deliberate human arrangement, so no one can predict it and prevent it in time. As a result, at 3:27 a.m., KAL007 was shot down by a missile from a Soviet interceptor over Sakhalin Island. None of the 269 crew members and crew members survived. At the time, U.S. President Ronald Reagan denounced it as a cold-blooded massacre of unarmed civilians, which was unforgivable and should be subject to international sanctions and condemnation. On the contrary, the former Soviet Union's self-defense pointed out that KAL007 invaded its airspace and carried out a premeditated espionage mission in an attempt to spy on military facilities on the Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin Island. Therefore, the Soviet army had to be ordered to shoot it down to defend the country. This is an appropriate act of self-defense forced by national security, so it should not be subject to inappropriate misunderstanding and purposeful condemnation.

Although the International Civil Aviation Organization’s 139th Council meeting held in Montreal, Canada, on June 14, 1993, announced the final investigation report on the reasons for the departure of KAL007 passenger plane from the route, and determined that KAL007 did not use the inertial navigation system. (INS) flight, but use the compass bearing to fix the flight at 245 degrees. Several Western scholars who have studied the KAL007 incident pointed out that the aircraft broke into Soviet airspace along the 21-degree route and flew from Kamchatka to Sakhalin for nearly an hour. It was also tracked by Soviet military aircraft. Although KAL007 contacted the Soviet Union many times through civilian channels, but in the end it could not escape. The tail of the passenger plane was hit by a missile, damaging the hydraulic and electrical systems. The cabin also lost pressure. After barely flying 17 kilometers, the nose of the plane fell off first. Passengers and luggage were sucked out of the plane through the crack, and then the tail of the plane also broke off. These neutral researchers raised some doubts: First, the navigation system of the Boeing 747 is quite advanced. Second, the captain had served in the Korean Air Force for a long time and often flew this route after joining Korean Air. It can be said that he was experienced and familiar with the route. Third, the Tokyo Haneda Airport Air Traffic Control Bureau had monitored the relevant matters at the time of the incident. The call was made and recorded, but so far they have refused to hand over the tape.

When the families of the passengers who died sued Boeing for compensation, Boeing’s attorney firm, Perkins Coie, one of the top four law firms in Seattle, hired a recording expert. Analyze pilot call recordings and recordings of Soviet pilots. It was discovered that the tapes of Soviet pilots handed over to the United Nations by the US ambassador were inconsistent with the originals and had apparently been deleted. It is foreseeable that there are some words in it that are very important to the case but at the same time very unfavorable to the United States. In addition, what is puzzling is that the Angleridge Control Bureau had already discovered that the plane had deviated from the route, but never issued a warning to it. Does it imply that someone has interfered with the normal operation of the Control Bureau through administrative means or failed to report the information?

Russian information and its supplements

After the founding of Russia, fragmentary information on the KAL007 incident was gradually disclosed. According to information from "Red Star", "Pravda" and internal fax news agencies The report is summarized as follows:

A few days before the KAL007 incident, the air defense radar station on Sakhalin Island was damaged by strong winds, and the air defense system was defective. When KAL007 broke into the airspace, the local top commander had difficulty detecting and identifying the target, so he sent the Su-15 interceptor aircraft of the Air Defense Force to understand the situation and monitor the situation, but KAL007 still ignored the warning and broke through. The commander asked Moscow for instructions under pressure. Perhaps due to communication problems, Moscow overestimated the seriousness of the incident and ordered it to be shot down. The air defense commander was quickly dismissed and prosecuted afterwards.

As for the air battle on Sakhalin, the Soviet army may have opened fire first to resist the invasion of the US military. The US military participated in the war with F-15s and certainly other aircraft types.

The Soviet aircraft participating in the war included Su-15 and MiG-23. Since there was a generation gap between the performance of the aircraft and missiles, and the pilots were poorly trained, their failure was expected. The battle loss ratio of US-Soviet military aircraft was about 1:2. -3, but the Soviet-made fighter jets performed far better than they did in the Middle East battlefield. So much so that Gable and others pointed out that electronic warfare aircraft such as EF-llll and RC-135 with advanced and sophisticated electronic systems were shot down, which seemed to confirm the accuracy of the West's long-standing suspicion that the Soviet Army had anti-radiation guided air-to-air missiles. , and judging from the results and the shooting down of two electronic warfare aircraft, it is well established that the Tu-126 early warning aircraft once guided fighter jets in combat.

Russian information disclosed in recent years even pointed out that MiG-29 actually participated in the war at that time. This is also far beyond people's imagination. The West has always believed that the Soviet army would deploy the latest equipment in Europe first, and believed that The first air combat of the MiG-29 occurred in the Gulf War, but in terms of time, the MiG-29 may appear on this battlefield. The MiG-29 was mass-produced in 1982, and the first batch of troops became combat effective the following year. Although the performance of the MiG-29 and the F-15 in close combat was similar, the air combat results were also defeated because the training hours were too short.

The aircraft was first exposed to the world when it visited Finland in 1986. However, it is said that a former US military pilot at the scene said "meeting old friends again." If analyzed, this is a sudden realization. The proportion of the 4-9 US aircraft shot down by the MiG-29 in this battle is still unknown, but judging by its performance, it may be a lot, but it should not have a big impact on the results of the battle, because the new aircraft equipped with the experimental troops There are only a few. The MiG-29 was mass-produced after the First World War on Sakhalin Island, and appropriate modifications were made to the airborne equipment. This may also be related to the lessons learned from air combat. In addition, Russian news also pointed out that in order to adapt to the combat requirements with the F-15, the Su-27 has also been partially modified even after the first batch of pre-production models has been produced. Official mass production of the Su-27B did not begin until 1985, and the final test flight did not end until March 1987. One of the reasons for the delay in production was related to the results of the air combat. In addition, after the KAL007 incident, the large-scale public salvage of aircraft debris by the United States and the Soviet Union was obviously related to understanding the performance of each other's aircraft. It can be seen that this small and medium-sized air battle has a positive significance for the development of fighter jets of the former Soviet Union, and it is the first confrontation between the two air forces since the 1950s.

It is worth adding that after the air war, the former Soviet Union urgently dispatched MIG-31 interceptors stationed in Europe to the Far East in order to strengthen the air defense of the Far East and prevent the US military from provoking again. At the scene, I believe that the US military may not be able to win easily.

As for the Soviet Union’s accusation of espionage on KAL007, although no personal or material evidence that is extremely helpful in overturning the incident has yet been made public, there is a precedent for the use of civilian aircraft to detect enemy situations in history. For example, Britain and France used civil aircraft to conduct aerial reconnaissance of Germany until a few days before the outbreak of World War II. They also used the most advanced stereoscopic photography method (Stereo Scope) invented by the British at that time, and could obtain a large number of spies without any loss. precious information is the most successful example. For example, during the Berlin Airlift Operation after the war, the Allies also used this method to detect Soviet intelligence, and there were unconfirmed similar operations in other parts of the world.

Japanese television did not report Dr. Tsuboi’s research results. Birch & Gower Law Firm interrupted the expert’s investigation without reason. Senator Kennedy requested an investigation into the incident, but the Senate Armed Services Committee heard secret testimony from the CIA. Later, the investigation was refused on the grounds that it would be "very expensive and time-consuming." The news and current affairs program of the British ABC TV station was also banned by the supervisor. Richard Burt, former Assistant Secretary of State under President Reagan, simply called these people "abnormal characters who create imaginative stories" and completely denied that the government would do such a thing, but his weak explanation was obviously Unconvincing.

Between the affirmative faction headed by Gabriel and the negative faction headed by Bate, there is still a third party's intermediate view.

"Seattle Times" reporter Smith believes that there is insufficient evidence to accuse White officials of high-level incidents, but it is possible that the intelligence agency used KAL007 as a cover to engage in highly confidential military intelligence gathering activities. However, the situation was not under control, leading to the destruction of the aircraft. The tragedy of his death gave the Reagan administration many unexpected benefits, so the White House did not want to tell the secret and just enjoyed the benefits. These benefits refer to the fact that in the propaganda war between the United States and the Soviet Union after the incident, the White House had the upper hand and successfully persuaded NATO countries to deploy Pershing II missiles in Western Europe to counter the Soviet threat. On the contrary, Andropov was portrayed by the West as a heinous sinner through the ages, a cold-blooded butcher who killed women and children and was reviled by the whole world.

Where are the survivors of KAL007 now?

Although everyone believes that the KAL007 passenger plane has been shot down, the latest news refutes this statement. On January 15, 1996, South Korean television revealed shocking inside information, stating that KAL007 did not crash and that most of the survivors on board were still being held in two Russian asylums. On that day, South Korea's KBS TV station published an absolutely confidential document from the CIA. In this 38-page document, the CIA asserted that Korean Air Flight KAL007 successfully made an emergency landing at sea after being attacked by a Soviet Air Force fighter jet with a missile. Most survived.

The document puts forward three important points of evidence: First, KAL007 did not explode immediately after being attacked. On that day, the U.S. intelligence forces in East Asia and the Japanese Defense Agency’s intelligence agencies tracked through radar that KAL007 was attacked by Soviet troops. In the case of the attack, the Japanese intelligence unit clearly captured that the aircraft did not burst into flames and explode immediately after being hit by a missile in the tail (the size of the 747 aircraft should be able to withstand attacks from small infrared missiles, but it is unlikely to withstand the Soviet semi-active radar) (The power of a large air-to-air missile guided or infrared with a huge warhead), the aircraft hovered in the Sakhalin valley for 12 minutes. After studying the accident, the International Civil Aviation Organization pointed out that after KAL007 was hit by an air-to-air missile on the tail, it flew over the sea between Sakhalin Island and the mainland for more than 10 minutes before finally making an emergency landing on the sea. This is generally consistent with what other scholars said. As for them, they pointed out that the last communication received from KAL007 was at 4:12. It may be that the plane continued to call for help after it made an emergency landing until it sank.

In addition, the aircraft fragments handed over by the Soviet Union were inspected and did not belong to KAL007 itself. After KAL007 was shot down, the Soviet authorities immediately sent special forces to block the waters in the area for six days. It was several months later that the former Soviet Union provided the wreckage of the plane crash to ICAO, and the plane's black box was not returned until Russia and South Korea established diplomatic relations. In this regard, the CIA pointed out in this document: There were two similar air crashes in the world in 1985 and 1987. In the waters near the crash, rescue units and personnel quickly discovered the bodies of the passengers who died, the wreckage of the aircraft, and the black box. The number of aircraft wreckage found after each crash amounts to 800-2,000 pieces. There should also be a large amount of wreckage and passenger corpses after the death of KAL007, but the Soviet authorities actually said that no wreckage or relics were found, and that there were only 76 pieces of aircraft fragments. In addition, when Russian President Yeltsin visited South Korea, he sent the black box of KAL007 back to South Korea as a gift for the establishment of diplomatic relations. However, after analysis and identification by South Korean experts, it was determined that the black box had been technically processed by Russian experts. The CIA even claimed in the document that the 76 pieces of debris handed over to the International Civil Aviation Agency by the Soviet Union did not come from the KAL007 aircraft itself at all! They speculated that in April 1978, the Su-15 interceptor aircraft of the former Soviet Air Defense Force made an emergency landing in the Far East region and detained a Korean Air Boeing 707 that broke into the airspace. After the KAL007 incident, the Soviet authorities sealed off the accident site and secretly transported the 707 passenger plane to Sakhalin, where it exploded in the air. The flower fragments handed over to ICAO were probably from aircraft No. 707. This seems to be related to Gable and others' accusation that both the United States and the Soviet Union focused on searching for military aircraft debris after the incident, because KAL007 can be salvaged as a whole. Out of the water, no need to look around for debris.

In addition, there are multiple channels that point out that the survivors of KAL007 may still be detained in Russia.

The Israeli intelligence agency first issued this message in 1992. It was top-secret internal intelligence obtained by the world's most efficient Mossad agents from the former Soviet Union. The CIA quoted the Israelis in the document as saying: After Korean Air flight kAL007 made an emergency landing, the former Soviet authorities dispersed and transferred the passengers on board to the Lubyanka Prison near Moscow and the Far East Wrangel Internment Camp. The inside story of KAL007 has once again attracted the attention of the Korean government and the public, and relatives of the passengers have asked the government to negotiate with Russia. The Russian government is unwilling to disclose the truth of the incident. It is unknown whether it is related to the national image or national defense secrets. However, whether it was forced to deliberately attack civilian aircraft or not, a reasonable explanation should be given to the world.