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...Asian heavens have revealed many omens to South Korea this year: last winter a North Korean pilot defected to Seoul in his MIG 19; last May a Chinese airliner was hijacked on a domestic flight and forced to land in South Korea: over the summer a Chinese pilot flew his MIG to Seoul, touching off sirens and momentary panic, but the pilot was soon on his way to Taiwan: and in September the Soviet Union shot down a Korean jumbo passenger jet that strayed across Soviet territory on the last leg of its long journey from New York. The Korean...
...seeking investments. Justifiably proud of along history and sophisticated cultural achievements, in recent years Koreans have regained an acute faculty of national and racial pride and basked in this belated recognition. Koreans are counting on events such as this month's Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Conference and the upcoming Seoul Olympics in 1988 to mark their full acceptance in the fellowship of advanced nations. KAL 007 was a slap in the face that underscored Korea's weakness in the international arena and its continued dependence on the US and to a lesser extent, Japan. Although it now seems questionable that...
Memorial services were held, and anti-Soviet demonstrations erupted, throughout the world. In Seoul, the destination of the downed flight, 100,000 people jammed the city's main stadium for a mourning ceremony. Kim Soo Jee, 13, told the crowd that "it tore my heart apart" to learn that her father, a member of the jetliner's crew, was never coming home. In Washington, Tryggvi McDonald, 22, eldest son of Georgia Democratic Congressman Larry McDonald, who was on the doomed flight, addressed a placard-waving rally of 750 people in Lafayette Square and later tried to deliver a letter...
...possible explanation is that the crew fed the INS computers some erroneous information while aloft. The INS can store only nine sets of coordinates; there were twelve way points along Flight 007's route to Seoul, which means that new sets of latitudes and longitudes had to be plugged in sometime during the trip. The copilot, who on Korean Air Lines flights is usually responsible for entering navigational data, might have done so after Neeva. Although each INS is supposed to be programmed separately, in practice the numbers are often put in simultaneously. The co-pilot (or other crew...
...seem to have a quick trigger. Last week's incident marked the second time in just five years that Soviet fighters have shot down a passenger jet. In 1978, Korean Air Lines (KAL) Flight 902 with 110 passengers and crew on board was cruising routinely from Paris to Seoul when navigational equipment apparently malfunctioned. Disoriented, the pilot veered 180° off course and penetrated Soviet airspace near Murmansk, above the Arctic Circle. For two hours the jet flew serenely over sensitive strategic submarine and bomber bases before Sukhoi-15 interceptors finally scrambled to intercept...