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WATCH: Crashes of Convenience – KAL 007

Episode 187 of The Corbett Report explores Korean Airline disaster that could have triggered World War III

On September 1, 1983, Korean Airlines Flight 007 was shot down by a Soviet fighter interceptor as it crossed through Soviet air space. But what was it doing so far off course, flying over Soviet military installations the day of a secret missile test? What happened to the bodies? And what does all of this have to do with Larry McDonald, the sitting US congressman who was on the flight and warning America about the coming of the New World Order? Find out this week on The Corbett Report.

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ragheadthefiendlyterrorist
ragheadthefiendlyterrorist
Mar 16, 2019 3:52 AM

Here, as a downloadable PDF file, is my own article, complete with sources, on KAL 007.

http://bill-purkayastha.blogspot.com/2015/09/death-over-sakhalin-destruction-of-kal.html?m=1

vexarb
vexarb
Mar 15, 2019 6:22 PM

Parrhesiastes BTL Saker Vineyard foresees distrust in Aviation Regulatory Authorities: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

https://thesaker.is/moveable-feast-cafe-2019-03-13/

Parrhesiastes: “‘Thus does FAA cede to China and Russia and others the certification of aircraft. This is very significant loss for the Empire. Really stupid too. ….

The point is made, strongly suggested, by Moon of Alabama that the FAA has been captured by finance and turned into a lobby for US airplane makers… Therefore the world, recognizing this dangerous self-evident fact (clear in the example of faked certification 737 Max, resulting in large losses) – recognizing this, the world is now going to move their ill-placed “beliefs” in FAA to beliefs in their own scientists and engineers to establish an honest certification system based not on faked “science” but on reality. Withal, the Empire loses the standing to certify airplanes – nobody is going to believe a proved agent of finance as opposed to genuine-reality-based engineering.

It will take some time, but it’s begun.”

Fair dinkum
Fair dinkum
Mar 15, 2019 6:11 AM
mark
mark
Mar 14, 2019 5:49 PM

I think KAL007 was probably just an unfortunate sequence of events that was largely the product of US arrogance and recklessness.

The Korean airliner was a standard Boeing 707. For a long time prior to this, the US had been provocatively flying spy planes deep into Soviet air space in Siberia. This was done for intelligence gathering, to see how long it took to scramble Soviet fighters, radio and radar frequencies and so forth. The aircraft they were using for this was basically just a militarised version of the same civilian airliner, with all the seats stripped out and replaced by banks of electronic equipment.

The Soviet Union complained about this and threatened to shoot them down. This was ignored by the US. So when the Korean airliner went deep into Siberian airspace with its transponder turned off, and failed to respond to attempts to contact it, the Soviet side assumed it was another US spy plane, and lost patience. “It’s those bloody Americans again. We’ve warned them before. Shoot the f*cker down!” The rest is history.

Say what you like about the Soviet Union, but they never flew Russian air force spy planes into western airspace above the US or UK. The US (and Britain) did so for decades. The Russians considered this an act of war. The US air force flew regular reconnaissance missions right across the length of Russia, taking off in Japan and landing in Norway. There was the U2 shoot down in 1960. Many people assume that these flights came to an end with the development of spy satellites, but this is not the case. Britain was heavily involved throughout the 1950s. State of the art (for the time) RAF Canberra reconnaissance aircraft flew missions deep inside Russia from the Middle East. Night after night, Stalingrad was lit up like a Christmas tree as hundreds of anti aircraft guns tried to shoot down the high flying aircraft.

Hundreds of aircrew (I think it was something like 300) were lost in these operations over the years. What happened to them is still a mystery. Hundreds of men’s lives were lost and families were bereaved for the sake of Cold War games. The same thing happened at sea. A Russian and a French submarine were lost in the Mediterranean. Apparently they were playing games of underwater chicken with each other and collided. A US warship deliberately sailed into Russian territorial waters in the Black Sea and refused to respond when warned to leave. A much smaller Russian warship deliberately rammed the US vessel to physically drive it out. Of course incidents like this are now a daily occurrence in the Baltic and Black Sea, in the air, at sea, and on land. 10,000 US troops drove up and down the borders of the Baltic countries with Russia in 1,000 tanks and vehicles, at times just a few yards from Russian territory, through communities of Russian heritage.

When a US warship shot down an Iranian Airbus just a couple of years after KAL007, with the loss of 300 pilgrims travelling to Mecca, including a large number of children, the US shrugged it off as a trivial incident of no importance. They did not offer any apology or condolences or expression of regret. The captain of the US warship was awarded a medal. The warship was in Iranian territorial waters at the time. The US lied about this and were later forced to admit they had lied. You can imagine what would have happened if the boot had been on the other foot, if a US airliner had been shot down by Iran.

It is very unlikely that Libya was responsible for the Lockerbie bomb. This was probably a case of Iran biding its time and fulfilling its Islamic duty to take revenge for its citizens killed on pilgrimage.

Archie1954
Archie1954
Mar 14, 2019 7:04 PM
Reply to  mark

Wasn’t KAL 007 a Boeing 747?

Helmut Taylor
Helmut Taylor
Mar 14, 2019 7:30 PM
Reply to  Archie1954

Who noes?

mark
mark
Mar 14, 2019 7:46 PM
Reply to  Archie1954

Yes, apologies, 747.

ragheadthefiendlyterrorist
ragheadthefiendlyterrorist
Mar 16, 2019 4:36 AM
Reply to  mark

KAL 007 was a Boeing 747, not 707, and was almost certainly on an espionage mission, designed to test Soviet radar capabilities.

Schlüter
Schlüter
Mar 14, 2019 9:14 AM

Sorry, typing mistake!
Should have been:
One must know: the Empire is playing with planes!

Schlüter
Schlüter
Mar 14, 2019 9:12 AM

One must know: the Empire is playing with olanes! Uncountable examples!
Regards

Helmut Taylor
Helmut Taylor
Mar 14, 2019 8:56 AM

And it IS true, that we (collectively speaking) have been at it since the dawn of time:and did the sun also never set on, Attila, Ghengis, Alexander…..and whomsoever; so:- the game goes on, even today, meaning: let the best man win – oder?

Michael Cromer
Michael Cromer
Mar 14, 2019 8:44 AM

The Truth is Out There.
Somebody needs to ask Boeing whether or not they have installed telemetry on board their modern aircraft and who has access to it apart from Boeing Engineers?
Boeing almost certainly know why the first jet crashed and were receiving in-flight telemetrics in real time during it’s flight.
Boeing needs to come clean and tell the public exactly what electronics their modern aircraft have on board because any such electronics can be hacked – potentially nobody is safe until we know.

Wilmers31
Wilmers31
Mar 14, 2019 6:03 AM

So many ‘important’ people have died in plane crashes. Even during the last Brazilian election campaign a contender of the tropical Trump Bolsonaro died in a plane crash. Maybe Olof Palme refused to fly and that’s why it happened as it did?

Iranians would so much have liked to buy the 737 Max 8 but they were not allowed to. Could the 2 planes which came down have been equipped with some kind of sabotage that was meant for the Iranians and they forgot to take it out for the Indonesians and Ethiopians? I found that a breathtaking THEORY and could not resist bringing it up.

milosevic
milosevic
Mar 14, 2019 7:43 AM
Reply to  Wilmers31

In that case, they wouldn’t bother with sabotage, they would just shoot them down, like they did with TWO Malaysian Airlines Boeing-777s in one year.

Helmut Taylor
Helmut Taylor
Mar 14, 2019 9:07 AM
Reply to  milosevic

Milly, just following the same procedure each time gets rather boring – so a change in tactics livens up the game – ottre?

mark
mark
Mar 14, 2019 3:40 PM
Reply to  Wilmers31

That’s a very interesting point. It’s entirely feasible. The US has specialized in aircraft/ helicopter crash assassinations for years.

vexarb
vexarb
Mar 15, 2019 6:24 AM
Reply to  Wilmers31

Wilmers31: So many ‘important’ people have died in plane crashes.

That’s why the “mighty handful” of Coca Cola executives who know that secret recipe are forbidden to fly together.

Frankly Speaking
Frankly Speaking
Mar 15, 2019 9:02 PM
Reply to  Wilmers31

Ridiculous theory.