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Explaining the plane's navigational system in great detail, Hersch shows how the pilot could have drifted over Soviet territory accidentally if only a few small mistakes happened at the wrong times. Flying at night on auto-pilot, the plane was lost mostly because of the crew's laziness and trust in their equipment. Probably confused by the jet's similarity to U.S. spy planes, the Siberian commander decided to play it safe and bring down the unknown plane...
...Seymour H. Hersch...
Finally, New York Times reporter Seymour Hersch has taken a fairly balanced view of the incident, basing his conclusions on extensive interviews with U.S., Japanese, and even Soviet officials involved. He concludes that the event was caused largely by misunderstanding, miscalculation and stupidity...
...THESE INNOCENT conclusions, Hersch constructs a harsh criticism of the way politicians manipulated the crisis by blatantly misusing the American intelligence network for their own advantage. Despite the expert opinion of a team of Air Force intelligence officers that the KAL Boeing jet and a U.S. RC-135 spy plane would be virtually indistinguishable at night, Defense Secretary Weinberger decided himself that the Soviet pilots knew it was a commercial flight...
Guard riflemen fired on TIME'S Richard Woodbury and two Associated Press newsmen, despite the fact that their car was covered with press markings. Freelance Cameraman Carl Hersch was driving in the city of Esteli when national guardsmen opened fire without warning; his passengers were wounded. The Washington Post's Karen DeYoung, the Chicago Tribune's Mark Starr and two Brazilian reporters escaped a mortar attack on the guerrilla-held town of Leon. In Managua last week, TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich and three other reporters were caught in an artillery bombardment as they attempted...