The downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine has stirred memories of a 1983 incident when a Korean passenger jet was shot down by Soviet fighters in what then US president Ronald Reagan called a ...

The downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Thursday was a déjà vu moment for me: As a journalist in Tokyo, I covered the Soviet Union's downing of Korean Airlines Flight 007 on Sept. 1, 1983. Those of ...

Yesterday’s tragic and appalling shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which killed some 290 people, reminds all of us of KAL 007. On September 1, 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 strayed off ...

General Secretary Yuri Andropov’s Soviet Union played Russian roulette in the early morning hours of Sept. 1, 1983, when an Su-15 interceptor shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, killing all 269 ...

NEW YORK — Hans Ephraimson-Abt, who became an internationally known advocate for families of air-crash victims after the death of his daughter on Korean Air Lines Flight 007, shot down by Soviet ...