Korean Air Lines Flight 902
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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]
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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″N 33°04′14″E |
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 |
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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.