The Original Information on KAL Flight 007 1983    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2777 I vividly remember my mother pacing nervously when she heard about this flight being shot down by the the Former Soviet Union in 1983. Why (?) My father was scheduled to be on this flight at that time, he told me just now that by “the time I took it, his flight changed to the Flt # to KAL7. I told my father that I remember him telling me this but he begs to differ with me now. Anyway, I remember him missing the flight because he told me a few summers ago that his company called him rescheduling his flight back to America from Korea originally scheduled for that date for one week later. (THANK GOD). Did my father solve the mystery insofar as wherefore this flight was shot down in 1983(?) I don’t really know. But when my Dad visited me in Bloomingdale, NJ two years ago we were sitting in my room talking and I remember asking him about it. I also remember him telling me that this particular jet to the best of his recollection was purposely invading Russian airspace to spy for the United States of America when the USSR shot it down killing all passengers.  My father told me the weather was particularly poor that night. Sometimes our memories differ slightly (wink). J. Starr |