A Pakistani passenger aircraft was forced out of Russian airspace by a MiG-29 fighter jet.
The Boeing-767 plane, en route from Lahore in Pakistan to Manchester in Britain, illegally strayed into Russia’s airspace on Sunday.
The incident occurred due to mistake of Russian Flight Control officials, who accepted their mistake and flight would follow this route onward.
By: GDL - 8th July 2004 at 14:06
Errrm, I doubt the KAL 007 pilot put his passengers at risk without a very good reason (spelt CIA). I doubt the CIA would gain anything by convincing a Pakistani pilot to do the same… and considering the track record of shooting down planes I doubt the Pakistani pilot would be that stupid.
According to the Soviet version of events the KAL 007 pilot reduced speed to try to get the interceptor to stall… it was hardly an accident, nor do I think it was a case that the pilot couldn’t see the warnings or didn’t know what they meant.
Unless you have conclusive proof KAL 007 was a spy flight Garry, the outcome of any flight that strays into Russian air space and doesn’t budge for whatever reason is open to speculation, as far as I am concerned. I guess we will probably never know for sure what happened, or who did what and why. But thats why its fun to speculate.
By: Arabella-Cox - 8th July 2004 at 03:43
Garry, the Pakistani plane too might have ignored the warnings in the same fashion as KAL 007 did. Who knows?
Errrm, I doubt the KAL 007 pilot put his passengers at risk without a very good reason (spelt CIA). I doubt the CIA would gain anything by convincing a Pakistani pilot to do the same… and considering the track record of shooting down planes I doubt the Pakistani pilot would be that stupid.
According to the Soviet version of events the KAL 007 pilot reduced speed to try to get the interceptor to stall… it was hardly an accident, nor do I think it was a case that the pilot couldn’t see the warnings or didn’t know what they meant.
By: GDL - 8th July 2004 at 03:03
I doubt it.
The Russians give warning signals using the interceptors lights first and then fire warning shots with cannon before they bring down aircraft. (Su-15s are hardly agile enough to warrant gunpods otherwise).
It would have been shot down if it had ignored all of that, but that is no worse than any other airforce would do to an intruding aircraft that does not respond.
Garry, the Pakistani plane too might have ignored the warnings in the same fashion as KAL 007 did. Who knows?
By: Arabella-Cox - 8th July 2004 at 02:19
If it had been 20 years ago we would be reading about another shoot-down – possibly!
I doubt it.
The Russians give warning signals using the interceptors lights first and then fire warning shots with cannon before they bring down aircraft. (Su-15s are hardly agile enough to warrant gunpods otherwise).
It would have been shot down if it had ignored all of that, but that is no worse than any other airforce would do to an intruding aircraft that does not respond.
By: GDL - 7th July 2004 at 02:05
If it had been 20 years ago we would be reading about another shoot-down – possibly!
By: andrewm - 7th July 2004 at 00:40
LOL How does a Mig chase a large airline out of airspace without radio contact? Its not like it can budge it over by leaning on it!
By: KabirT - 6th July 2004 at 17:58
These are very ignorant mistakes that newspapers do. Although the masses dont realize it.
By: bmi-star - 6th July 2004 at 16:03
Said 767 in Daily Post ere aswell, don’t trust papers anyway:D
By: RIPConcorde - 6th July 2004 at 14:35
It’s hard to mistake a 767 with a 747, so I’d say it must have been a 777.
By: Johnny - 6th July 2004 at 12:37
If it was going to MAN, it was a 777 or a 747.
By: KabirT - 6th July 2004 at 11:14
Has to be a 777 or an A310.
By: Mark L - 6th July 2004 at 08:36
777 or 747 most probably. No 767s I can think of in Pakistan.
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