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When the Soviet interceptorshalf a dozen hot, 1,800-m.p.h. Sukhoi-15s−approached the 707, their pilots apparently did not know what to do. Radio contact was never established. None of the standard international signals to land, such as lowering wheels and turning on landing lights, were given. Instead, U.S. officials say, one of the Sukhoi-15s fired two missiles at the plane; the first hit above the left wing, while the second missed entirely. The attack killed a Korean businessman and a Japanese tourist and depressurized the fuselage, forcing the pilot, Captain Kim Chang Kyu, to begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Aboard Flight 902: We Survived! | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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