The Downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007
On September 1, 1983, a Korean Air Lines (KAL) Boeing 747 on a regularly scheduled flight from Anchorage, Alaska, to Seoul, South Korea, was shot down by a Soviet fighter. The Korean airliner had penetrated restricted Soviet airspace over a sensitive military base located on Sakhalin Island, on the...
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ftyaleunivlawsch:oai:openyls.law.yale.edu:20.500.13052/6145 2023-05-15T18:08:59+02:00 The Downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 Morgan, Craig 2021-11-25T13:35:01.000 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13052/6145 https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjil/vol11/iss1/12 https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1477&context=yjil&unstamped=1 unknown yjil/vol11/iss1/12 9346671 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13052/6145 https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjil/vol11/iss1/12 https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1477&context=yjil&unstamped=1 Yale Journal of International Law 2021 ftyaleunivlawsch https://doi.org/20.500.13052/6145 2022-01-16T07:12:47Z On September 1, 1983, a Korean Air Lines (KAL) Boeing 747 on a regularly scheduled flight from Anchorage, Alaska, to Seoul, South Korea, was shot down by a Soviet fighter. The Korean airliner had penetrated restricted Soviet airspace over a sensitive military base located on Sakhalin Island, on the northern Pacific coast of the U.S.S.R. All 269 people aboard the airliner were killed. The downing of the KAL jet resulted in the greatest loss of life and produced the strongest international reaction of any previous use of military force against civilian aircraft. Other/Unknown Material Sakhalin Alaska Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository (eYLS) Anchorage Pacific |
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On September 1, 1983, a Korean Air Lines (KAL) Boeing 747 on a regularly scheduled flight from Anchorage, Alaska, to Seoul, South Korea, was shot down by a Soviet fighter. The Korean airliner had penetrated restricted Soviet airspace over a sensitive military base located on Sakhalin Island, on the northern Pacific coast of the U.S.S.R. All 269 people aboard the airliner were killed. The downing of the KAL jet resulted in the greatest loss of life and produced the strongest international reaction of any previous use of military force against civilian aircraft. |
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