Word: sakhalin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extra swing around the earth changed Columbia's path. As a result, when the ship swooped out of its last orbit, instead of coming in south of Australia and over the western Pacific, it passed only 80 miles above eastern Siberia in the militarily sensitive area of the Sakhalin Peninsula where Soviet aircraft shot down a South Korean jet last September. Never before had a manned American spacecraft flown so low over Soviet territory; happily for NASA, there were no grumbles from the Kremlin...
Shortly after the fiery end of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a senior Reagan Administration official said the U.S. had "irrefutable" evidence the Soviets knew that the plane they blasted out of the skies over Sakhalin Island was a commercial jet. The President and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick made statements last month that in effect indicted the U.S.S.R. for deliberate, cold-blooded murder of the airliner's 269 passengers and crew. But last week the Administration admitted that the proof, far from being irrefutable, is nonexistent. Said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg: "We do not have the evidence...
...know why the flight strayed--or purposely veered--over the Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin Island. Any allegations concerning Korean or U.S. intentions are, at this time, completely unsubstantiated, even if the possibility exists that the flight was, indeed, on a spy mission...
...word it probably refers to the 747, now practically at a right angle to the Su-15. Although target had a tragic meaning in the skies over Sakhalin, it is airman slang for radar blip...
Somewhere in the Sea of Japan, just off Sakhalin island, is a "black box"-its actual color is orange-from Korean Air Lines Flight 007. The flight data inside would probably answer some of the questions about how and why the wayward aircraft met its fate. The waterproof container is heavily reinforced to survive impact and ocean depths down to 20,000 ft. For 30 days it will automatically emit a sonar signal that can be heard for up to five miles under water. Many of these boxes have been recovered in the past, but if the one from...