KAL 007
 

An old case but an interesting one nonetheless:

I came across an interesting website that details one possible(probable?) scenario regarding the shootdown of KAL 007 in 1983. The theory states that the 747 was not shot down at all- although it was hit in the No. 4 engine. Due to the damage the a/c was forced to land on Sahkalin Island and the pax and crew taken prisoners by the Russians. The pax and crew were then either imprisoned or disposed of.

This theory may seem far fetched but it does in a way answer a few questions.
1)Why were there never any bodies discovered from 007 either by the Japanese or the US??
2) Why was there never any a/c wreckage recovered from the ocean(which in that area is not all that deep)??
3)Did the Russians want to "exterminate" a particular person onboard the a/c- e.g US diplomat etc???
In fact the pilot of the SU-15 that shot down the 747 now admits he was aware it was a civilian airliner but shot it down anyway(something he didn't admit to at the time)
The 747 was intercepted some 70nm before Soviet airspace- why??
-check out this website for an interesting perspective from a former 747 captain- http://john.birch.org/html/kal/-007-questions.htm

This theory is nothingh but nonsense. The Russians actually managed to retrieve debris from the floor of the ocean. They published a lot of photos which clearly show parts of the shot-down airliner. Of course I am aware that photos can be doctored. However one of the pics for example shows two units of a Surge Tank Protection System (STPS). This was a special-purchase item for the 747s and only a few aircraft had the thing installed. The Korean aircraft was MSN 20559, a Boeing 747-230B, originally delivered to Condor. And LH is one of the few airlines to have ordered the STPS. "It is exceedingly unlikely that the Soviets had either knowledge or the materials required to have faked a photograph of such an out-of-the-way bit of equipment like this" (quote from: The Wake of the Flying Crane, by R.W. Allardyce 6 J. Gollin, in: Airways, March 2000).

Given me strength not this again! The URL is incorrect anyway - try:

http://john.birch.org/html/kal_007_questions.htm