Anyone their give ur Views on the South Korean Plane attack?

Question

when the south korean plane was shot down by russians, can they not speak to the pilot to stay away fro their teritory. was it not possible to talk to them. If the attack was deliberate, then as reports suggested, can the Mig pilot not warn the airliner with voley of bullet fire before hitting a missile. Was it true that the Mig pilot cannot determine the airliner commercial or military. We see in movies where pilots can see a plane and talk between them. Was those things not possible in the air?

Answer 1

First, the attack took place a long time ago. Second, not every pilot is fluent in English and at times of distress, pilots like other people do not always think rationally, and speaking Korean might have suggested an incident similar to 9-11. While most aircraft have large logos painted on the body of the aircraft and tail, if you violate territorial air-space and do not respond, then they have no option but to defend their country. 9-11 might have been avoided if the air controllers had been more prompt after the initial attack but they assumed that the plane had strayed off course and the attack was only an accident. Planes have struck the Empire State Building and well as the White House, the former by accident but the latter by design...that does happen because of electronic problems and if they had scrambled a few jets, perhaps we would have been able to divert the aircraft or at least reduce the number of casualties. It has never been determined that the attack was deliberate and even if it was, it would have been called a pilot error. But this is all hindsight.

Answer 2

I was stationed in South Korea when KAL 007 was shot down by the Soviets on 1 September 1983. Two members of my unit were aboard that flight

The airliner had wandered far into Soviet airspace due to errors in programming of the autopilot system when it departed from a refueling stop at Anchorage, Alaska. Investigations at the time and in 1991 (when Boris Yeltsin's administration finally released the data from the flight data and cockpit voice recorders) confirmed this to be the primary cause of the incident and that the flight crew was unaware of the incursion into Soviet airspace.

The testimony of the pilot of the Soviet fighter that shot the airliner down does indicate that international standards for handling airspace incursions at the time were followed. He maintains that he did fire across the flightpath of the airliner however the aircrew would not have seen this if the guns were not equipped with tracer rounds. (It is not unusual to NOT use tracer rounds as they clearly indicate the location of the source of the rounds making it easy to return fire.) The fighter pilot further claimed that he tried to contact the airliner's flight crew but there is no record of any transmissions on the standard emergency frequencies at the time.

It is also alleged that the fighter pilot reported seeing flashing navigation lights on the airliner, an indication that the aircraft was in fact civilian, but that his ground controllers misunderstood him to say that there were no nav lights in use, an indication of a possible military spy mission. Based on this mis-information, the ground controllers authorized the use of deadly force to bring the airliner down.

There is some evidence that supports the Soviet claim at the time that they mistook the aircraft for an American RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft. Subsequent to the incident, tapes of portions of the communications between the Soviet pilots and their ground handlers were released in an attempt to prove that it was a deliberate attack. (It is presumed that these communications were originally encrypted, they virtually always are, and it is highly unusual for a government to publicly admit to the ability to decrypt the communications of their adversaries although this was never stated as such.) A review of the full transcription of the tapes does give credence to Soviet claim that they had misidentified the aircraft as an RC-135 spy plane as they had claimed.

As a result of the KAL 007 incident, the Reagan administration decided to open up the Global Positioning Satellite System (GPS) to public use once deployment was completed. Prior to that time, it was limited to military use only and even its existence was not publicly admitted to. The now ubiquitous GPS system would likely have prevented the disaster had it been available for civilian use at the time.

As a sidebar, this was not the first time that a KAL flight had wandered into Soviet airspace. KAL 902 was shot down by the soviets in April of 1978 when it overflew the Kola Peninsula. Two passengers were killed in that incident although that airliner did manage to land safely on a frozen lake bed.

Answer 3

There exist international procedures for air craft entering restriced air space or entering another countries air space unauthorised. There would be a buffer zone for example 150 miles on each side of the designated border that if you crossed in to you would be contacted via radio and interceptors would chaparone you back to the border or to an air feild. The mig was ordered to fire open the other plane by some body there's no doubt about that. Russia is more likly to become the 53rd state of the United states than it is to tell the media who ordered it or why.

Answer 4

On the tenth anniversary of the shootdown, a U.N. sponsored report has cleared up all the lies and disinformation surrounding the flight and the Western press has chosen to ignore it.

Answer 5

Can you imagine a russian and a south korean conversing in a common language - probably english??? Do you think their was a hope in hell that one understood the other..........??