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KAL 007 entered Soviet airspace and triggered a shootdown

Korean Air Lines Flight 007 strayed far off course in 1983 and was mistaken for a spy plane. Soviet fighters intercepted it, ...
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MH17 has strong echoes of 1983 Korean tragedy

The downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine has stirred memories of a 1983 incident when a Korean passenger jet was shot down by Soviet fighters in what then US president Ronald Reagan called a ...