Originally Posted by
KelvinD
I remember that. Wasn't it on a polar route and was forced to land on a frozen lake in the Russian Arctic?
Meanwhile, referring back to the Vincennes fiasco; All this talk of calling or not on VHF or UHF Emergency frequencies is all very well but what was wrong with the US Forces talking to the relevant FIR people and asking "Do you have anything inbound from Iran?"
It was Korean air 902 - The Russians seem to have had it in for the Koreans