What Happened in History: Browse Historical Facts on Kudos 365

Korean Air Lines jet Flight 902 (KAL 902), on a flight from Paris to Seoul, is forced down over the Soviet Union after the jet veers into Russian airspace. What happened next is not exactly clear. It may have been a missile fired by the fighters, or it may have been their guns. But the result was a major portion of the airline jet left wing was destroyed and the fuselage was punctured, causing immediate decompression of the cabin. Two of the passengers died and several others were injured. The jet managed to dive into the clouds and evade the Russian jets and it eventually made a rough landing on a frozen lake bout 300 miles south of Murmansk. More