Korean Air Lines Flight 007, also known as KAL 007, was a Korean Air Lines civilian airliner shot down by Soviet Interceptors on September 1st, 1983 just west of Sakhalin island. 269 passengers and crew aboard KAL 007; there were no known survivors.
The aircraft had violated Soviet airspace the Soviet Union stated it did not believe the aircraft was civilian and said that it believed it had entered Soviet airspace as a deliberate provocation by the United States.
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