Korean 902, le Boeing 707 qui a fini ABATTU en URSS !

Good morning, my friends. I am not so unrealistic as to believe that we will ever know the full truth about Coron Airlines Flight 902. I will tell you what we know, or perhaps what we think we know, and everyone will form their own opinion. It is April 20, 1978, at Orly Airport. There is a Boeing 707 departing for Seoul, South Korea. There are 109 people on board. The flight crew are military personnel, as was very often the case with this company at that time. Heroes of the Korean War. Right? And then the training plane whose destination is actually Alaska. Why Alaska? Simply because it has to make a technical stop. So it takes off and heads north. It follows a great circle route and an orthodromy that will take it over the United Kingdom and Scotland. It will pass north of Iceland. It will cross the Great Elk while continuing north. And at one point, when it is practically on Canadian territory, it is very close, a few cables away, as you would say, from the geographic North Pole. And normally at this point it is supposed to start to bend its trajectory more and more towards, I say that in quotation marks, towards the south, to go precisely towards its first technical stop. The problem is that at this point this plane makes an inexplicable maneuver that will remain a mystery. It will turn right. How will it turn right? It will not do a 180 degrees or someone would have turned back on its path. But almost. It will make a turn of almost 160 degrees. It is night, beautiful, starry night. There is the moon. People who see the moon from one window, well, you start to see it from the other. The plane turns back and is starting to take off again. Where is it heading? It's heading towards the territory of the ussr. It's heading towards Russia. In reality, at that time there were no diplomatic relations between the USSR and South Korea. Korean planes avoided the territory of the Soviet republics. The pilots are in their cockpits. Everything seems to be going normally. And they don't realize that they've turned back, which is very, very hard to believe. In any case, for several hours our plane, which was almost in Canada struck, starts to return to Europe. This time it returns to Russia and then continues to fly gently. At 9,500 meters, the Soviet Air Force realizes that there is a plane that hasn't announced itself on the frequency. It hasn't spoken to anyone. There's no flight plan, there's nothing at all. It's flying a bit haphazardly and it's arriving on their territory. So they start monitoring it before it reaches the border. Then after a while, well, they. They cross the borders and go very deep into the territory themselves. Of course, several type 15 aircraft take off from several bases in the region to intercept it. They line up alongside it and the passengers are waving to the pilots through the window, taking pictures, all that. So it's a little weird because at this stage of their development, they must already be in the temperate zones, if that's what Canada is. Right. They must be not very far from where we are heading towards Vancouver, normally at this stage. And then the guys see the red star of the Soviet Union. So there's like a little anomaly. The pilots continue for several minutes and then decide to turn around. So they turn around again and then they come back the way they came. The problem is that for the aviation, for the Soviet Air Force generals who were woken up in the middle of the night, there is a big problem. That means, what are we going to do with him? Because if we just let him go like that, heads will roll. The political commissar, the army officers, all of them will demand explanations, will demand that people be demoted, go to prison, all of that. And they start to argue on the frequency. They start to argue. Pilots are threatened with court martial. Uh, there are obscenities that have been said on the radio or heard by everyone. And so, uh, the stress is going to mount. The pilots are receiving contradictory orders. They hear people yelling at them. And at one point, when our plane was six minutes from the border, of the arrival at the border with Finland, which means that in six minutes it was going to leave Soviet territory and leave their jurisdiction, he decided there was a pilot who received the order to shoot at it. So he shot at it. He sent a missile, an RR missile. The missile launched, it was guided by infrared. It fixed on one based on the heat emitted by the engines. The Boeing 707 had four engines. I want to say it had four engines. There aren't many of them flying anymore. It chased this plane and then it exploded. A big explosion. And so what was supposed to happen actually happened? No, not really. Not what was supposed to happen. I don't know what happened with this missile. There was a miracle that day. It may have gotten damp. It may have been stored incorrectly. It may have been adulterated. It may have passed its expiration date. Whatever. Something happened to this missile that was extremely ineffective. It exploded. It exploded. It tore off three meters of it. On the left side of the plane. There are three meters of it that have gone, that have been torn Off. Miraculously, there's no ripped open tank that catches fire. In which case. In which case the plane would have fallen like a comet. What we have is that shrapnel from the missile hit the fuselage, went through it. There are two passengers who are injured. One is killed on the neck, one is injured by shrapnel. We are in row 23 or 24, and then the first one will die immediately and the other a little later. Two Koreans were killed. Subsequently, the pilots realized that they were going to have more and more difficulty controlling the plane. He decided to do what? He decided to go for the ground, especially since the pressure was dropping, so the masks fell off and all that. So they decided that their only option was to go for the ground to start with. So they went for the ground. A Russian plane launched a second missile. The second missile took off and hit what it miraculously counted on the three meters of it that had been torn off. That meant that there was another plane that was falling and a piece of it was also falling. And instead of hitting and finishing off the plane, the missiles hit the piece of it that tore it apart. The plane reached the ground. It still had its engines. There was still some semblance of control. The pilots said to themselves that they had to land because they didn't know how long they would be able to fly with a plane that was so damaged. Then what did they do? They tried to lower the landing gear. It went halfway down and it got stuck. And then they were flying over forests, a very dense forest. Landing in the forest, it might not be the best idea. They didn't know that these trees look very big, very strong. They could tear the plane apart and kill everyone. So they continued to fly for a few seconds. Like a rat, the landing gear tears through the ice. In some images, we can see the marks of the landing gear. We can see the two main landing gears. The nose gear is not visibly extended. So we can see the damage that was done that was left in the ice by the landing gear. And then the plane will slide, will continue to slide on its own until it reaches an island with some trees and it stops there. Uh, it's one of the most extraordinary landings that has been done with an airliner of this size. We know that the Boeing 77 is a pretty crazy plane. There was even a test pilot who did a complete roll with it. And here we have a pilot who landed it in a cross country race on ice. And it even slid until it reached solid ground. The plane stops there. The fighter pilots in flight Search for the plane, don't know what happened to it. They search for it, they circle around. They circle around and they clearly lost it. Once the plane came to a stop, they opened the passenger compartment, opened the doors, and then went out into the ice, into the snow. The problem was that they were dressed. They had left Paris. They were dressed in spring clothes, shirts, T shirts, all that. And they found themselves in a very cold place. They stayed there for several hours until the local authorities sent trucks, saw the police, the army, all that, and took charge of them. So they put them in trucks, took them to gyms and all that. So they were very, very bothered because these were areas, areas that foreigners were not supposed to visit, because there was certain economic hardship in those areas. So it wasn't that we didn't want foreigners to see this, because in general, foreigners were confined to big cities and sometimes even on well marked routes, so they could see what we wanted to show them. But here they weren't supposed to show up like that, like a hare in the soup. They were put in a gymnasium, a metal bed, rice started boiling. They were brought to a doctor. The two passengers who died, there was nothing more to do for them. But the others were in good health. A few days later, we went to question the pilots. We brought the captain back to a committee. He came there in his uniform, his four bars, took a box of Marlaboru. Well, he offered it to them. Well, they didn't want to smoke. He just wanted to break the ice. How do you say it? Well, he took out this pack of the west of the Cadence, right? That's why, since there were political inspectors there, no one dared to take any, even though they were all smokers. And then he answers their questions. So he explains that he arrived at the South Pole, didn't he? And then finally at the North Pole. And at one point the system had a problem because the autopilot is powered by the navigation system. And then suddenly there was an error. And then he took off again and headed south again, knowing that when you're at the North Pole in all directions, it's south, the south is everywhere. This explanation is worth what it's worth, but it doesn't really hold water, especially since towards those areas he. He was probably navigating using the inertial system, which doesn't really care about the Earth's magnetic system. So that doesn't make sense. In addition, there are several IRS systems in the inertial plane and there are pilots with maps. At the time, he was even doing space navigation. And all that. How can we explain that he flew back to Russia for hours without realizing it. What would have happened to him if he hadn't been intercepted? He could have ended up in Turkey at some point. He could have appeared in the middle of the Black Sea and said, I have the impression that we've made a mistake. It makes absolutely no sense. Even if we look closely at those times. Korean planes had this tendency to get lost, had this tendency to make navigation mistakes. Five years later, there was the Korin Airlines 007 that had returned to the other side of Russia. It also made navigation mistakes, and then it ended up being shot down. But we see the replay. We see the replay five years before, the same scenario, but this time. But the next time it will be with many more victims. In any case, the Russians are going to look inside the plane. What are they going to find? They are going to find a gun, they are going to find a radio, and they are going to find a Newsweek magazine. That wasn't enough to declare that it was probably an espionage operation. Later it was explained that, well, Newsweek is an American magazine, but it is distributed pretty much everywhere on planes. So there is nothing. There is nothing abnormal about it. It was recovered by a pilot or a passenger a few days before. Guns happen, right? It was a time when there were major plane hijackings, so why not the pilots had a gun? As for the radio, well, there are several on a plane. It's normal to have a radio on a plane. There's nothing unusual. In any case, a few days later, what happened was that the passengers were taken by bus to another destination. There they met the American ambassador because the United States had relations with the Ross. So they brought back a Panama 747 plane. The passengers were all released and they left. The crew stayed another week. The crew stayed another week answering more questions. And then after a while, we realized, well, there was nothing to get out of them. We also put them on a plane and they went home. The Boeing 707, it remained on the snow for a while. Afterwards it was dismantled. There are very, very few images of it being dismantled. There's only one photo that I could find, a black and white photo where you can see the tail section has fallen off. It seems that local residents took the seats. The upholstered seats from the Boeing 707 were a hit. They were apparently found in military offices. They were found on a bus. There was a bus driver who apparently installed rows of Boeing seats in his coach. There were also locals who took the seats and that's where the story ends. It was a very serious incident. A passenger plane was shot down by a missile, and it still left a lot of people dead, caused a lot of material damage. And that's what foreshadowed the future. It will be like something that signals something more serious is going to happen, which will happen five years later with the corn line 007, who was shot down, causing many casualties. This time, if you're looking for 007, look in the channel. 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