Did the pax and crew survive KAL 007
 

Just saw this interesting article on Yahoo. Wouldn't suprise me at all if those people were still lost in a gulag somewhere.

. . . .Tuesday February 12, 3:16 pm Eastern Time. .Press Release. .SOURCE: International Committee for the Rescue of KAL 007 Survivors. .Researcher Wants KAL 007 Crash Re-Opened: Will Present Evidence, Petitions in Washington. .WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Bert Schlossberg, a scholar from Israel, will present evidence on Thursday that contradicts the accepted theory that all passengers died on Korean Airlines #007 in 1983.

Schlossberg has spent 10 years researching the mysterious crash of the jet, and has formed a new committee to bring public attention to his findings. He and several others will hold a News Conference at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, February 14, at the Army & Navy Club, 901 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. After the briefing they will deliver petitions, addressed to President Bush and President Vladimir Putin, to the White House and the Russian Embassy asking them to find out what happened to the 240 passengers and 29 crew members aboard the plane.

Nearly all aboard the jet, which was hit by a Soviet missile, vanished without a trace. The cabin of the aircraft was discovered largely intact in shallow water, but contained just one body. 61 American citizens were aboard the flight, including Congressman Larry McDonald (D-GA), nationally known for his anti-communist views.

Bert Schlossberg who formed the International Committee for the Rescue of KAL 007 Survivors last year, is the son-in-law of passenger Alfredo Cruz of New York. The Committee has many supporters among the relatives of the passengers. His book, "Rescue 007, The Untold Story of KAL 007 and its Survivors'' (Xlibris 2001), presents evidence for his premise:

1) The cockpit voice recorder demonstrates that one missile hit the rear of the cabin, and a second Soviet missile missed the aircraft completely. The cockpit voice recorder tape, kept secret by the Soviets for many years, revealed that the flight engineer reported all four engines functioning normally after the missiles were fired.

2) Japanese radar showed the plane slowing down as it descended until it went below 1000 feet and was off the radar screen. The descent lasted 12 minutes. Radio intercepts record that Soviet vessels converged on the location where it ditched near Sakhalin, an island near Siberia. Boeing says that it could have remained afloat for an hour if the landing was soft. No big pieces of wreckage, no baggage, and only two bodies were found floating on the ocean. The largely intact cabin contained some personal belongings but no life jackets.

In 1991, Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) requested information from President Yeltsin on what happened to the rest. If they didn't survive, where are the bodies? The Soviets admitted that they had classified documents, but did not make them available. Since then, there has been no effort to get answers to Senator Helms' questions.

For more information, see <a href="http://www.rescue007.org" target="_blank">http://www.rescue007.org</a> and <a href="http://www.griffnews.com" target="_blank">http://www.griffnews.com</a> or contact Griffin Communications at fran

There's an increasing tendency on this forum to dress up press handouts from all manner of dubious groups as news stories with datelines, after the fashion of Reuters, UPI, AP, AFP and other reputable agencies.. .People who post stuff like this should not attempt to give it some spurious authenticity by making it look like what it's not. If you have to pull stunts like that, you must know you're on a loser.

Well the item did appear on Yahoo News, although I agree a simple link would have sufficed. <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020212/dctu045_1.html" target="_blank">http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020212/dctu045_1.html</a>

Of course that may or may not make it more credible depending on one's penchant for conspiracy canards.

Mmmm... is this posting an ad for the book?

Perhaps Elvis was in first class and the Glenn Miller Orchestra played at the welcoming party!

Everyone loves a conspiracy!

This would make a really good film with a happy ending, finding all the survivors with long beards lost on a tiny Island... Or a new Tom Clancy novel.

although the Tom Clancy novel would have to find a way to include 3 men and a dog from the Idaho national guard defeating an invasion from whichever far-eastern nation Clancy disliked that week.... <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">

The Soviets had a long history of shooting down KAL planes, and in at least one prior incident, a KAL B707 was actually missiled by the Soviet interceptor Sukhoy-15TM ("Flegon-F") led by Captain Bosov , but the KAL pilot managed to land the badly damaged bird safely on a frozen lake at night!

<a href="http://heninen.net/flight-902/english.htm" target="_blank">http://heninen.net/flight-902/english.htm</a>

About 1/3 of the left wing was destroyed but Captain Kim Chang Ky AMAZINGLY landed that wounded bird and saved everyone on board but two, who were killed by splinters.

He must have been a one heck of a pilot to pull that off.. .Now duplicate that landing in a sim.

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OK, I'll come clean. I was one of the survivors. Any journo offering me $10,000,000 can get the full exclusive and amazing story.