The plane after landing in the Soviet Union, with visible damage to its left wing
Shootdown
Date
20 April 1978 (1978-04-20)
Summary
Shot down by Soviet Union[1]
Site
near Loukhi, Karelian ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union 66°02′54″N33°04′14″E / 66.04833°N 33.07056°E / 66.04833; 33.07056
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Boeing 707-321B
Operator
Korean Air Lines
IATA flight No.
KE902
ICAO flight No.
KAL902
Call sign
KOREAN AIR 902
Registration
HL7429
Flight origin
Orly Airport Paris, France
Stopover
Anchorage International Airport Anchorage, Alaska United States
Destination
Kimpo International Airport Seoul, South Korea
Occupants
109
Passengers
97
Crew
12
Fatalities
2
Survivors
107
Korean Air Lines Flight 902 (KAL 902) was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from Paris to Seoul via Anchorage. On 20 April 1978, the Soviet air defense shot down the aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 707, near Murmansk, Soviet Union, after the aircraft violated Soviet airspace.[2][3]
Flight 902 had veered off course over the Arctic Ocean and entered Soviet airspace near the Kola Peninsula, whereupon it was intercepted and fired upon by a Soviet fighter jet. The incident killed two of the 109 passengers and crew members aboard and forced the plane to make an emergency landing on the frozen Korpijärvi Lake [ru] near the Finnish border.[4]
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^"The Worst, But Not The First." Time 122.11 (1983): 21. Academic Search Premier. Web. 9 November 2012.
^"The Mystery Of Flight 902 Why Did A South Korean Jet Make a 180° Turn over the Arctic?." Time 111.18 (1978): 35. Academic Search Premier. Web. 9 November 2012.
^"Рейс "KAL" # 902 по расписанию не прибыл". Retrieved 30 April 2017.
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