"Target destroyed!" The mystery of the South Korean Boeing is still not solved. Tragedy over Sakhalin

website Next year marks the 30th anniversary of the greatest tragedy in Russian-Korean modern history.

We can safely predict the aggravation of anti-Russian far-right sentiments in South Korea, therefore let us remind you without technical details about the tragic events of September 1, 1983. This story has given rise to many mysteries; not a single body has yet been found, although everyone has been thoroughly searched.

What they wrote and said then:

1. Soviet media version. On September 2, 1983, a strange message was published about an unidentified aircraft flying into Soviet airspace. The Su-15 interceptor fighters, alerted, drove him out and he retired towards the Sea of ​​Japan.
2. Soviet media version. On September 4, newspapers condemned the propaganda fuss raised in the West in connection with the alleged shooting down by Soviet fighters of a Boeing 747-230B passenger plane belonging to the South Korean airline Korean Air and operating a regular flight on the New York-Seoul route. A map of the route is published, and it is suggested that the plane was on a spy mission.
3. Soviet media version. On September 8, regret is expressed over the loss of life. The leadership of the USSR knew immediately that a tragic mistake had occurred and the Soviet air defenses mistook a passenger plane for a reconnaissance aircraft, but no one wanted to frame the military and the responsibility was placed on the United States. A program of disinformation of the world community began, which caused a major international scandal.

What happened then:

On September 1 at 3:00 local time, the Boeing 747 took off from Anchorage and headed for Seoul. The flight route was supposed to circle the territory of the USSR east of Kamchatka. However, almost from the very beginning of the flight, the plane began to deviate from the intended course.
At the same time, an American PC-135 reconnaissance aircraft was in the air, which for some time approached the Boeing. Radar observation data presented later by the Soviet side showed that the Boeing at a certain point in time got so close to the PC-135 reconnaissance aircraft that the marks on the radar screens merged. After this, one plane headed deep into the territory of the USSR, and the other along a route close to the international air route. The radar stations of the Soviet air defense guided the Boeing 747 like an American reconnaissance aircraft, which was facilitated by the similar size and design of the aircraft.

The plane passed over Kamchatka, flew over Sakhalin, and was no longer allowed to fly to Vladivostok.
At 6:26 local time, Lieutenant Colonel Osipovich received an order from the commander of the Far Eastern Military District, General Tretyak, and fired two missiles at the silhouette of an aircraft walking near the very edge of the clouds. One of the missiles flew past, the other exploded near the tail of the airliner, damaging the control systems. After 12 minutes, the Boeing falls into the waters of the Tatar Strait, taking with it the lives of 269 passengers and crew members.

According to an investigation conducted by the International Organization civil aviation(ICAO), the most likely reason for the 500-kilometer deviation from the flight path was that the South Korean Boeing pilots incorrectly configured the autopilot and then did not perform proper checks to clarify the current coordinates. That is, the violation of USSR airspace was unintentional.

Finding out the true background of the events that happened exactly thirty years ago in the night sky over Sakhalin and the Sea of ​​Okhotsk is just as difficult as proving and confirming the truth of the American landings on the Moon. In both cases, behind the apparent simplicity and irrefutability of the version persistently promoted by the West, something completely different is visible...

Meanwhile, it is necessary to figure it out, despite all the obvious inconsistencies. After all, the 1983 incident became a convenient pretext for Washington and its allies to unleash another paranoid-hysterical campaign against the USSR and contributed to the unity of the anti-communist bloc. President Ronald Reagan found another reason to confirm his earlier thesis about the USSR as an “evil empire” - a term he borrowed from the film “ Star wars" Part of the Soviet elite was so frightened by the Western propaganda attack that two years later they voted with both hands for the coming to power of the favorite of our geopolitical rivals, Mikhail Gorbachev.

Once again, it makes no sense to talk in detail about the events of September 1983: the number of newspaper publications about the downed South Korean Boeing number in the thousands, books have been written about it and films have been made. Let me just remind you that the most important accusation against us is the disproportionate use of force against a civilian airliner of the South Korean airline Korian Airlines, flying on the first day of autumn 1983 on flight 007 New York - Anchorage - Seoul, as a result of which 269 passengers died and crew members.

But to this day, many facts work against the Western version of the “peaceful plane.” This is a significant deviation of the Boeing from its flight route of more than half a thousand kilometers, which began almost immediately after takeoff from Anchorage.

In response, we are told that the pilots simply made a mistake. But how many cases does history know when passenger planes with experienced pilots, who had flown this route more than once or twice before, went so far to the side?

And for what reason American services Air traffic control didn't warn the Korean pilots that they were flying on the wrong course?

There is still no clear answer to the question of why the “new” route of flight 007 ran over Kamchatka, the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin - in other words, areas that were and still are strategically important for the defense of our country. Again they object: what kind of information could a civilian aircraft collect if everything is already visible from satellites? Well, firstly, not everything is noticeable from orbit through the veil of the earth’s atmosphere even now. And, secondly, one of the possible purposes of a possible invasion of our airspace was to collect data on the organization of Soviet air defense systems, which were forced to work against the intruder.

Another question that has not received a clear answer from the West is the synchronization of the flight of the South Korean aircraft with the American Ferret-D reconnaissance satellite and the American spy plane.

In addition, the incident occurred against the backdrop of ongoing provocations from Washington in 1983, which became insolent to the point that it even authorized a simulated bombing of one of our military airfields in the Kuril Islands.

And the main question, which has no answer: how could the Corian Airlines pilots not see the Soviet military aircraft next to them, which indicated its presence by swaying its wings and warning fire. Not only that, they also tried to leave by occupying a higher echelon.

Suspicions intensify even more when you find out that back in April 1978, another Corian Airlines flight 902, flying from Paris to Seoul via the same Anchorage, also “got lost” and, probably, quite accidentally appeared in the sky above our other the most important area - Kola Peninsula. He was forced to land, after completing the formalities, the passengers were released, the pilots were not punished, but were expelled from Soviet Union. It's pretty good known fact, but few of us know that in 1992, one of the authoritative South Korean magazines published an article that contained confessions by the captain of that same Korian Airlines flight of having connections with the CIA. It was on the eve of Boris Yeltsin’s trip to Seoul, when he handed over the “black boxes” of flight 007 - maybe no one told him that, in connection with the above-mentioned publication, it was advisable to postpone such a ceremony for a more detailed study of the issue.

The presence of the special services was very strongly felt in the incident over Sakhalin. The Boeing commander, Chung Byung-in, was once the personal pilot of the South Korean ruler, Park Chung-hee.

Working with the top officials of the state implies a mandatory procedure for undergoing verification by the intelligence services, and even, rather, long-term cooperation with them. However, both then and today, South Korean intelligence cannot be completely independent in its actions - it is in the same harness with the Americans. But that's not all. The influential South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo then published a report about the landing of an allegedly downed Boeing on Sakhalin, citing CIA data. But it is not customary to talk about such cooperation between journalists and intelligence services, especially foreign ones.

There is also a statement posted on the Internet by an American woman, whose father, a career intelligence officer, did not board flight 007 literally ten minutes before departure - on the advice of his colleagues. But the most amazing thing is the writings of Western “writers” who say that in fact the Boeing was not shot down, but was only forced to land on the territory of the island administrative-territorial unit of the USSR. When asked about future fate passengers are given a simple answer: they are being held in the Gulag, because special “secret” camps are still preserved in Siberia. Cases of telephone calls to relatives made by those who should have died thirty years ago are cited as “evidence”. For example, an engineer discussing electronic systems on board a Korean airliner, unexpectedly called his mother, but only managed to tell him that everything was fine with him, after which he immediately hung up. There were also reports that Boeing passengers were often met by their acquaintances, but those “resurrected” pretended that they had identified themselves.

This means that the version of “informed sources” that, in fact, instead of a passenger Boeing, an American reconnaissance plane similar in shape was shot down also has a right to exist. The liner was landed at an American military base in Japan, and all passengers were given new identification cards and good monetary compensation, while being ordered to remain silent. If so, then Westerners understand well that sooner or later the bag will come out of the bag, and then a huge scandal will be inevitable. To avoid it, fables about the “active Gulag” were launched.

Several other similar cases dating back to the same 1983 speak in favor of the fact that the Boeing incident was well orchestrated.

The most resonant was the assassination attempt on the South Korean dictator-president Chun Doo-hwan during his visit to Burma in early October, which was called in Japanese and South Korean sources as the “incident at the tomb of Aung San.” Let me briefly remind you: Chun Doo Hwan, according to protocol, was supposed to visit the mausoleum in honor of the founder of independent Burma in the capital of this state. For some unknown reason, the President was late, having sent his ambassador to this country to the ceremony site in advance. However, an explosion occurred near the mausoleum, killing about thirty people, including the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Energy. Judging by a photo taken just minutes before the incident, representatives of South Korea's top political establishment were lined up waiting for their boss.

After the incident, the Burmese military caught two supposedly North Korean agents, who, as part of a sabotage group, allegedly carried out this terrorist attack. Everything seems to fit, right down to the physical evidence, and there are captured perpetrators. But why has no one bothered to clearly explain the reason for Chun Doo-hwan’s lateness to the memorial cemetery, to explain how North Korean agents could have entered the territory of the tomb, which was guarded by about two hundred security personnel of the South Korean president, not counting the Burmese security forces, and planted two mines there? enormous explosive force. And why was the North Korean merchant ship, from which a group of saboteurs allegedly landed, located from October 4 to October 11 in the port of Colombo, that is, far from the scene of the incident. And why would Chon Doo-hwan, upon returning to Seoul, not remove either the head of the intelligence service or the head of his own security from his posts. Yes, supposedly North Korean agents were caught, but who can guarantee that these are not South Korean intelligence officers who received the task of posing as “brothers” from the North? However, no one has published photographs of these people yet. And there was no reason for the North Koreans to “run into” a scandal that resulted in a severance of diplomatic relations with Burma, a country with which trade was very profitable for both Pyongyang and Rangoon. Now, decades later, these two countries are again drawn to each other like magnets, motivated by anti-Western sentiments. However, a year before this, the South Koreans claimed that they wanted to kill their leader - it’s clear who - in Canada. This already looks like paranoia.

Even more mysterious case occurred in August of the same 1983, when in the Sea of ​​Japan the South Korean warship Gangwon allegedly sank a high-speed North Korean reconnaissance ship. More precisely, this was done by a helicopter taking off from the ship with an AC-12 missile, which, according to the South Koreans, is intended for firing at ground targets. It’s strange, there is no information about the successful use of AC-12 in the Sea of ​​Japan anywhere else except in South Korean sources. Versions of what happened also differ. According to one of them, the South Koreans stepped onto the deck of a stricken ship, according to another, it simply sank, and again not a single photograph. But as evidence, a helicopter was put on public display, the fuselage of which was decorated with the sign of a destroyed enemy warship. “Substantial” evidence, of course.

I believe that in the case of Boeing, the Americans pursued not only the goal of finding out the details of the operation Soviet system Air defense, but also wanted to prevent a rapprochement between Seoul and Moscow.

The South Korean dictator, General Park Chung-hee (president of the country in 1963-1979), apparently was very burdened by his total dependence on Washington. Therefore, whenever possible, he looked for “exits” to Moscow. One of the first signs is gratitude to the Soviet leadership for quick solution issue with the passengers and crew of flight 902, made, I note, in the conditions complete absence diplomatic relations. This line was continued under the next military ruler, Chung Doo Hwan, at that time South Korean walkers who also had American or Japanese citizenship, having received a visa, visited our foreign policy department to persuade us to improve relations with Seoul. After the Boeing incident, these visits to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ended, South Korea was overwhelmed by a wave of anti-Soviet hysteria...

Special for the Centenary

On September 1, 1983, a Soviet Su-15 interceptor shot down a Korean Airlines Boeing 747 that violated Soviet airspace. 269 ​​passengers and crew died. This tragic incident caused outrage throughout the world, especially after the Soviet side classified the investigation into what happened on for many years. Only after the collapse of the USSR were documents published that made it clear what really happened on that day.

By the early 80s, after a decade and a half of détente, relations between the USSR and the USA had deteriorated to the level of almost the Cuban missile crisis. Soviet invasion to Afghanistan, the coming to power of the uncompromising Reagan, the system of strategic defense initiative and the American intention to deploy Pershing II missiles in Europe caused a sharp deterioration in relations.

In the spring of 1983, the Fleet'Ex exercise was held in the Pacific Ocean, which became the largest since World War II. The exercise area was in close proximity to the Soviet borders.

In addition, periodically over Kamchatka and Kuril Islands Boeing RC-135 electronic reconnaissance aircraft flew. Soviet air defenses tried to shoot them down, but this did not always work. Every case when the air defense missed a reconnaissance aircraft became a reason for scolding the heads of the Far Eastern air defense services.

Flight KAL 007

Flight KAL 007, operated by Korean Airlines, ran from New York to Anchorage, from where the plane flew to Seoul. The flight took place mainly over Pacific Ocean. There were 23 crew members and 246 passengers on board the plane. Of these, 82 passengers were Korean citizens, 62 were Americans, 28 were Japanese, and 23 were Taiwanese. In addition to them, citizens of ten more states were present.

At 03:00 local time, the plane, which had refueled in Alaska, took off from Anchorage. But ten minutes after takeoff, the plane began to gradually deviate from the set course. The investigation into the reasons for this deviation did not provide a clear answer as to why this happened. According to one version, for some reason the crew did not switch the autopilot from one mode to another. According to another version, the crew did everything correctly, but due to technical problems the autopilot did not switch to another mode.

The crew did not notice that the autopilot was operating in a different mode; they did not even imagine that they could deviate from the course. Meanwhile, the liner was moving towards Kamchatka.

Under normal circumstances this would not be fatal. The plane was flying in the direction of Seoul in any case, it just deviated 300 kilometers from the route and would have flown a little longer than usual. However, Kamchatka was a closed airspace. In addition to military bases, missile tests were also carried out there.

Due to the tense international situation, Soviet air defenses were already on high alert. In addition, by coincidence, it was precisely on these days that missile tests were planned in Kamchatka, which is why the air defense was on alert.

First interception

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Three Su-15s were scrambled from the Sokol airfield and one MiG from the Smirnykh airfield to intercept the intruder. Soon the Su-15, piloted by Major Osipovich, reached the target. Osipovich reported that he saw side lights and a row of windows. However, it was impossible to describe the aircraft more accurately. On the ground they decided that this did not mean anything, since all planes have side lights, but they could come up with something with the windows. Moreover, a Boeing reconnaissance aircraft (RC-135) in the dark, and even at a distance, is quite difficult to visually distinguish from a passenger airliner.

According to Soviet instructions, the violator was supposed to be forced to land. To do this, it was necessary either to go to a civilian frequency and try to establish radio contact, or to shoot tracer bullets near the plane in order to attract the attention of the pilots. Only if the intruder did not respond to all these signals, lethal fire was opened.

However, the aircraft did not have tracer shells in its ammunition. Interceptors were generally equipped with them very rarely, so as not to unmask them. Therefore, Osipovich began to shoot with conventional armor-piercing bullets. But nothing came of it; the crew simply did not notice them.

Boeing", and began to fall into a tailspin already at 400 kilometers per hour.

At 18:26 UTC, Osipovich fired two missiles. One missed, the other hit the target. After this, the Korean plane began to slowly descend. For about five minutes the crew managed to maintain control of the aircraft. It descended to a height of three thousand meters, after which control over it was lost.

Soviet version

Initially, the USSR remained silent. The first news reports from Korea said that the plane may have landed on Soviet territory due to problems. However, the Americans were well aware of everything that had happened, and already on September 1, Secretary of State Shultz convened an emergency press conference at which he presented the interceptions of radio communications of Soviet airborne forces.

Initially, the USSR did not know what to do. Andropov was already very ill, so the USSR did nothing for several days. At first it was planned to tell the truth - the plane was shot down due to an identification error. However, at the last moment it was decided to replay everything and put forward a counter-version - the plane was shot down because it was carrying out a reconnaissance flight.

On September 5, an official statement was made by American President Reagan, who called the attack on a Korean plane a “crime against humanity” and “an act of barbaric cruelty.” A meeting of the UN Security Council, convened by the Americans, was scheduled for September 6. On it they presented detailed transcripts of Soviet radio communications and showed a map of the plane's flight with a deviation from the course.

After this, denying anything was simply madness. On September 9, a press conference was convened, to which the Chief of the General Staff, Marshal Ogarkov, was sent to take the rap. It presented the official Soviet version. It stated that the border violation was deliberate and planned - to test Soviet air defenses. The plane did not respond to attempts to make contact with it and did not obey the commands of the interceptors, so it was shot down. The marshal expressed regret over the loss of life, but laid the blame on the American intelligence services, who “tested” Soviet air defenses, deliberately exposing the passenger airliner to attack.

The United States responded to this incident by banning Soviet aircraft from flying to America. Reagan also promised that the GPS system would be open to everyone in order to eliminate such tragic incidents in the future.

Investigation

The plane crashed in Soviet waters, so no one except Soviet search engines had access to the accident site. Officially, the USSR denied until the very end that as a result of the search work it was possible to find anything significant for the investigation. In fact, search engines quickly discovered the plane's flight recorders, but their testimony did not fit with the officially announced Soviet version (a deliberate and planned violation of airspace). Therefore, all this data was classified.

The International Civil Aviation Organization conducted its own independent investigation. However, without access to the crash site and flight recorders, investigators were limited in their conclusions. As a result, the organization came to the conclusion that the crew violated Soviet airspace unintentionally - either due to inattention when working with the autopilot, or due to technical problems.

Relatives of the dead American citizens created an association and enlisted the support of a group of American congressmen. In the wake of perestroika glasnost, congressmen wrote several letters to Gorbachev asking him to provide information known to the Soviet side.

After the collapse of the USSR, letters began to be written to Yeltsin. In the end new president announced that they had found in the archives secret documents about the circumstances of the incident and they will soon be submitted for publication. In 1992, several secret intelligence service memos were published, and in 1993, flight recorders, aircraft debris and other objects found during the search were transferred to South Korea. Another part of the items was transferred to Japan, as well as to the relatives of the dead Americans.

A new international investigation was conducted taking into account the now declassified data. It turned out that the plane's pilots did not realize that they had veered off course and twice entered Soviet airspace. It was also clear that they did not notice Osipovich's warning shots.

It was also confirmed that the Soviet air defense was confident that they were shooting down an RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft. Only a few hours later it became clear that a passenger airliner had been shot down. The original plan was to announce that there had been an identity mistake. However, due to the fact that not all identification methods were used (in particular, there were no attempts to establish radio contact), the Soviet leadership feared that this would become a reason for new accusations. Therefore, it was decided to classify information about the discovery of the recorders and stick to the version of an intelligence provocation. The haste, due to which they did not try to establish radio contact with the plane, was explained by the fact that it was already preparing to leave Soviet airspace and they were afraid of missing it and getting reprimanded from above for being slow.

The secrecy of the investigation until the early 90s gave rise to many conspiracy theories. One of them says that the USSR actually shot down a reconnaissance plane, and not a passenger airliner. The main argument is the fact that the bodies of the passengers were never found, only individual things.

Another version says that the plane managed to land on Japanese territory, but all passengers were required to sign a non-disclosure agreement and classified information about their rescue. As a subtype of this version, there is a version that the plane landed in the Soviet Union, and all the passengers were supposedly sent to secret prisons, which does not stand up to criticism.

However, it is worth considering that it is quite difficult to carry out such an operation with citizens of one and a half dozen states. Not to mention the fact that among the passengers there were very famous people. For example, Congressman Lawrence Patton McDonald is the cousin of the famous General Patton.

In the end, it is not entirely clear why such difficulties could be necessary, given that the main consequence for the USSR was only a temporary ban on Soviet aircraft flying to America. In any case, the Americans were going to deploy the Pershing II missiles in Europe and would have done this even without the incident with the Korean plane.

Most likely, the situation with the Korean airliner was the result of a combination of circumstances and a number of mistakes on the part of both the Korean crew and the Soviet air defense, which did not identify the plane, and not of someone’s malicious intent.

Korean Boeing 1983

This case was included in World history. Above Sakhalin on the night of September 1, 1983 was shot down Korean passenger airplane Boeing 747. Airplane belonged to the state South Korea and flew Flight 007, New York - Anchorage - Seoul. Western means mass media was stated what's on board Korean Boeing shot down in 1983 was 269 ​​passengers, not counting crew members. The passengers included US citizens. Among the dead was US Congressman Larry McDonald, who was active critic of the USSR. THE WHOLE TRUTH was about this flight known only just 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 shot down in 1983 year. After this statement American President swept across the progressive world thousands of protest demonstrations these countries. Peoples countries from America to Japan demanded accept drastic measures in relation to to the USSR. All The world shook. For the first time after the Cuban missile crisis appeared again the specter of nuclear war!

American intelligence always paid special attention maintaining electronic intelligence, especially using aviation. Starting since 1945 years began regular reconnaissance flying over the territory of the USSR and him allies.

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

On the night of August 31st to September 1st, 1983 years the events happened like this. At 20 hours 3 minutes Moscow time time on Far Eastern radars Air defense appeared air object similar to American intelligence airplane R.C.-135. Intruder plane crossed the border exactly in the place where the Soviet strategic bombers were returning from educational tasks! Korean Boeing 1983 year definitely bypassed Soviet air defense zones, obviously knowing their location, and it turned out over the territory where was it located base Soviet strategic submarines!

To intercept the offenders were raised two Su-15 fighters And MiG-23. Define what kind of plane is it intruder, only succeeded from very close range! Fighters identified it as an airplane similar to Tu-16. Fighters served precautionary shots, but Korean Boeing over Sakhalin in 1983 no way this year didn't react on them and didn't answer to inquiries according to emergency international radio frequency.

After precautionary shots Korean Boeing over Sakhalin in 1983 made several complex air maneuvers, including sharply slowed down to 400 kilometers per hour. Apparently Korean Boeing pilots, intruder into airspace USSR in 1983, exactly knew that soviet fighter Su-15 at this speed may become unstable in flight! To the Soviet pilot Osipovich given order to shoot down intruder plane! Osipovich reported to the ground that rocket launch produced , airplane shot down!

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

Just through 4 hours this case became known wide world community! IN Western media it was announced that 269 ​​passengers died! This case all over the world was announced as attack on a defenseless civilian airplane! By around the world a wave rolled protests. E that case on for good reason allowed to blame 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 to airlines, which was not a member of the association of international carriers, so tickets on 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 navigation INS devices(inertial navigation system) ! At this point there was a plane 3 such devices. With their help location aircraft is determined at any time time very accurately with a maximum possible error of 5 meters and such an error is only possible for very 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 radio beacon signal receivers, 2 ADF receivers with remote measuring devices and 2 weather radars!

Commander Korean Boeing shot down in 1983 was Chang Bin Ying, most experienced pilot. He was colonel South Korean stock BBC! His flight experience was more than 10,000 hours. Flight distance along this route was 11,400 kilometers. The flight was supposed to be standard.

August 31st V 14 hours 30 the plane makes minutes technical landing for refueling And crew changes V Anchorage. Things are starting to happen here some oddities! No explanation reasons Korean Boeing V 1983delayed by 40 minutes and besides additionally poured 4 tons of fuel! That year it was only 3 cases, when the plane took off with full tanks fuel!

Around the same time near the Soviet border on Far East were detected American reconnaissance aircraft. Also at this moment close Soviet borders cruised 3 US Navy ship.

Approximately in 4 minutes after in 1983 took off Korean Boeing flight 007, permission for takeoff gets another one South Korean Boeing flight 015! Fact departure TWIN AIRPLANE, which will actually fly to Seoul, later there will be keep quiet!

To the commander 40th fighter aircraft divisions Far Eastern military district Anatoly Kornukov V 1983 received a message from operational duty officer, What Korean Boeing violated air border, goes west Kamchatka to the side Sakhalin. Kornukov ordered to raise three duty officers fighter for escort or destruction violator - it will become clear according to the situation.

A 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 air border Korean Boeing in Kamchatka, Americans used all types of military techniques that were 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 like powerful reconnaissance 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 - reconnaissance aircraft and destroy his! When approaching the goal Su-15 pilot Osipovich caught the intruder on sight, But in the first approaching 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 cancelled! Osipovich reported to the ground that Korean Boeing, USSR in 1983, does not respond to requests, gains altitude And slows down, determine target type due to poor visibility can't, goal goes to low speed!

The land gave Osipovich new indication Korean Boeing, airspace violator USSR in 1983, don't knock down A force landing! Osipovich released the rocket capture,slowed down and saw in front of me big airliner with illuminated portholes! Came in first on the left, gave the signal with lights And swaying. Then I did same thing on the right.Intruder no way didn't react to fighter signals received international aviation rules And did not respond to requests via the emergency channel communications ! At the pilot's Korean Boeing V 1983 was rigid attitude, disobey neither on which requirements strength Air defense of the USSR, even taking into account risk be shot down!

After that Osipovich gave an order for Korean Boeing, violating airspace USSR in 1983, open warning fire! After this warning shooting from guns at Osipovich in ammunition left total 4 shells! Don't notice shooting from a cannon on a plane going on like this close distance, especially at night impossible!

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

To the violator was given not only passive role! At this time when Korean Boeing, airspace violator USSR in 1983, was approaching Sakhalin, appeared on air message, what the offender conveys encryption above him, American satellite. In this encryption it was said that he observes clearly lying on depth up to 300 Soviet meters strategic submarines And takes pictures!

It was necessary take urgent action because the offender has already passed secret naval bases, and at Soviet fighters were running out of fuel. Kornukov gives an order Osipovich destroyKorean Boeing, violator in 1983 airspace USSR!

Osipovich with did intense turn and went out to the rear hemisphere to the violator distance approximately 1,5 kilometer He immediately on devices caught fire capture information goals. Osipovich in one gulp released two rockets. 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 time the target has disappeared from locator screens. Exactly the place plane crash failed to fix neither ground services , nor fighters. All that was truly known was that it Strait of Tartary And approximate location falls !

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 mode readiness! In the area where the Korean Boeing crashed V 1983 are going US, USSR navies and them allies! Japanese Air Force announce Alarm gathering! Simultaneously unwinds with this anti-Soviet company. Pilot Osipovich appears as desperate cowboy, A Soviet military command as capable without hesitation click on nuclear button!

After in 1983 was shot down Korean Boeing USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs it turned out not ready to timely And confident defend interests of the USSR!Partly this happened because head of government at that time there was Yu.V.Andropov, which was mortally ill! Country leadership at the moment when he was shot down Korean Boeing V 1983 By by and large say was missing! Soviet government, without understanding the details affairs, instead of in order to praise for doing the right thing air defense forces, start it's unclear to make excuses! West clearly made sure that soviet government in such cases unable on correct action! Was informational lost war!

After being shot down Korean Boeing V 1983, Western media did emphasis that the plane deviated from the correct route as a result of a data entry error into the on-board computer of the aircraft, that is into autopilot airplane! At the same time no one could explain How, Korean Boeing, shot down in 1983 equipped with the most modern navigation devices, very controlled experienced pilot And accompanied ground dispatchers of several countries, deviated almost from the right route for 500 kilometers! Was it's impossible not to notice that the plane is flying wrong course during two and a half hours!

Korean Boeing, shot down in 1983 flew by exactly above the Soviet secret military objects on Far East, and also there is proof, that he deliberately tried escape persecution Soviet air defense fighters, doing certain maneuvers in flight!

Even more clarify the circumstances of the case could "black boxes" airplane . Korean Boeing, shot down in 1983 fell in Tatar Strait at a depth of approximately 180 meters . Began search airplane . Soviet divers found the wreckage of the airliner first! Soviet Navy thrown into the sea 2 beacon, imitating signals "black boxes" far from the crash site, thereby directing Americans falsely I'm following!

Wreckage Korean Boeing, shot down in 1983 turned out to be quite small and lying contentedly heap. Dimensions wreckage 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 there wasn't at all or was, but clearly not 269 people!

Baggage, found on a downed plane, looked Very Weird! Glasses, powder compacts, empty women's bags - without contents, clothes attached to a cable, passports of missing passengers, packed in one PACK were found! 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 to South Korea, But relatives dead or considered dead passengers, these things are NOT received! This indicates that baggage, found on Korean Boeing, shot down in 1983 over Tatar Strait, was IMITATION.

Also later it turned out from the foreign press, that relatives supposedly dead passengers met them under other names! Apparently passengers were LANDED IN ANCHORAGE And sent next by plane! On top of that, the Korean airline that owned Korean Boeing, shot down in 1983, obliged would be officially publish the list of dead passengers, A THIS WAS NOT DONE!

Now let us recall that he was detained in Anchorage on 40 minutes. This was necessary, among other things, to combine airplane flights And American satellite. The intruder flew by exactly above objects Air defense of the USSR And essentially exposed the USSR air defense system Far East! Those human remains that were found on the downed 1983 Korean Boeing, apparently belong to ELECTRONIC INTELLIGENCE OPERATORS, which were on board this plane and did their job!

IN 1984 July 20th analyst American intelligence Ernie Bockman spoke on air independent English TV channel, which reported 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 succeeded achieve inclusion almost all communication objects who worked about 4 hours on an area of ​​more than 18 000 square kilometers !

Today, methods of obtaining intelligence significantly have changed! By using new technologies created more advanced means observations. But manipulation of public opinion, as well as various provocations, to a certain extent are still used in modern politics!

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Since death 269 ​​people who were on board this plane, more than 30 years have passed. However, circumstances tragic event Since then, not only have they not become clearer, but rather, on the contrary, they 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, Army General I. M. Tretyak. The district chief of staff was in touch and reported to the commander that a foreign aircraft had invaded USSR airspace in the Kamchatka region.

The general later recalled:

“He flew along an unusual route. This alarmed us. OSNAZ units established that a radiogram was being transmitted from the aircraft to the satellite. Having deciphered it, we learned that the crew was reporting the successful completion of the task of monitoring our submarines located 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, to destroy it.”

Interceptors were launched into the air. The pilot of one of them, Lieutenant Colonel Gennady Osipovich On orders from the ground, he hit the target with two missiles.

Before this, he fired several warning bursts (about 200 rounds) from a 23-mm airborne cannon along the airliner’s path.

Gennady Nikolaevich Osipovich

Until Osipovich made visual contact with the intruder, the Soviet military command was confident that they were dealing with an American PC-135 reconnaissance aircraft. 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 missile. Only at this 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 designations, this one was unlike any of them. I saw that there was a large plane in front of me with its lights and flashing lights on.”

The airliner, which crashed into the water off Moneron Island southeast of Sakhalin, turned out to be a passenger Boeing 747 that had deviated almost 600 miles from its 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 really happened in the sky over Sakhalin. According to some journalists who tried to conduct an independent investigation, the blame for the death of the Boeing passenger plane lies with the South Korean authorities, who authorized its participation in the reconnaissance operation.

Planned and actual routes of flight 007

The American magazine Science Defense Magazine wrote:

“Shortly before the incident - August 11-14, 1983 - this plane visited air force base Andrews, where he was equipped with special equipment. This operation was attended by representatives not only of the Agency national security and the CIA, but also 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 size - for no apparent reason it was increased by 11 people. The 40-minute delay with the departure from the airport in Anchorage also speaks in favor of the version of the KAL-007 spy mission.

This “unforeseen” delay allowed the plane to arrive at the USSR border precisely at the moment when the American Ferret-D reconnaissance satellite was orbiting over Kamchatka.

Immediately after the disaster in Anchorage, a draft plan for the flight to Seoul of flight 007 was discovered, from which the clear conclusion followed that the Boeing’s deviation from the route was not accidental and that the ship’s commander had 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, radio traffic was suddenly restored and until the moment of death, the second pilot contacted the dispatcher at least twenty times. But the strangest thing is that, once over Sakhalin, the passenger airliner responded to an automatic survey of Japanese radars with signals identifying it as an American PC-135 reconnaissance aircraft.

There are many other facts in favor of the participation of civilian Boeing in the operation of American intelligence services. A retired Japanese employee wrote about this in the book “The Truth about the KAL-007 Flight.” military intelligence Yoshiro Tanaka. 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 systems not only to verify that the intruder aircraft had been shot down, but also to record the location of Soviet radar posts, clarify operating frequencies and record all telephone and radio conversations of the military.

Records of these interceptions were later published in all American newspapers. But the flight plan of a US Navy reconnaissance aircraft located near 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 airliner was not shot down by Lieutenant Colonel Osipovich near Sakhalin, but crashed near the Japanese city of Niigata. This was confirmed by Brun’s authentic copy of the Boeing 747 communications, 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, hid the fact that an explosion occurred over the territory of the USSR. dogfight, which resulted in the downing of three US Navy aircraft.

To support his version, Bruhn pointed out that some of the fragments washed up by the sea on the Japanese shores 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 have belonged to an American F-111 or EF-111 fighter. Another piece of debris found - the pilot's catapult seat - could also only belong to a US military aircraft. In addition, parts of a combat missile with English markings washed ashore.

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

Whether this is true or not, there is documentary evidence that on September 1, 1983, a special American Navy aircraft, usually used in rescue operations, was sent to a specific square in the Sea of ​​Japan.

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 item was found, but there was an abundance of things “from the trash heap”: broken powder compacts, old torn clothes.

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

“We found fragments of several bodies. It was as if there were 17 people on the plane. At first they said that the bodies could have been 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 stack and knitted sneakers. Is it ever common for passengers to put their passports together on planes? The salon was simply filled with rubbish.

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 followed its own course and then even got in touch with the Japanese. But he was also failed. It is impossible for an airplane like a Boeing to deviate almost 600 miles from course. This error 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 plane, but what about the fact that flight KAL-007 took off from Anchorage with passengers? Secondly, the experienced pilots managed to land the Boeing, and the people were evacuated. This assumption formed the basis of another version of events.

According to it, the passenger plane actually participated in an American intelligence operation, which its passengers did not even suspect. After Osipovich launched the missiles, the Boeing did not immediately crash into the ocean, but was in the air for some time and continued to communicate with the ground.

Then he made an emergency landing on the water, the Americans secretly evacuated the crew and passengers, and the Soviet military was promptly planted with a pre-prepared “decoy”: rags, small fragments of a passenger plane, several fragments of corpses from the morgue. And then the propaganda machine of the US State Department got involved, 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)

Celebrating the anniversary of the tragedy, on September 1, 2003, the English BBC radio company admitted that there were still many mysteries in the story of the South Korean Boeing:

“Hence the increasingly frequent 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 - if there was an airfield. Representative International Committee to save 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 associates are confident that this plane was the very Korean Boeing. According to him, the passengers of the flight were removed from the plane and taken away in an unknown direction, and the car itself was blown up, then spreading the fragments along the seabed.”