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What are some of the unanswered questions about flight KAL 007?

Korean Airlines flight 007 was shot down over Soviet airspace in 1983. As the plane entered Soviet airspace, the Soviet Union sent two fighter jets to intercept the plane. The pilots of the Soviet fighter jets shot warning signals, but they still got no response from the pilots of the Korean passenger jetliner. It was then that the Soviet Union shot at the plane, eventually bringing it down.


There are several questions that remain unanswered. Why didn’t the Soviet pilots try to contact the Korean pilots via the radio, which would have been normal procedure in such a situation? Since the plane continued to fly for another twelve minutes after being hit before crashing into the ocean, why were no bodies ever recovered by the Soviet military? Did the Soviet Union rescue any survivors and then imprison them? Did the Soviet Union try to hide evidence from the incident by possibly destroying the bodies?


Over 30 years after this incident occurred, there are still unanswered questions about this event.

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