Incident at Sakhalin: The True Mission of KAL Flight 007 - Hardcover

Brun, Michel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568580541 ISBN 13: 9781568580548

Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995

Synopsis

Offers a startling new explanation of the 1983 crash of Korean Air Flight 007, charging that instead of being shot down by the Soviets, the plane was caught in an air battle between the U.S. and the Soviets. 25,000 first printing. IP.

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Language Notes:

Text: English
Original Language: French

From Booklist:

The Soviet justification for killing 260 people aboard a Korean 747 in 1983 was that the airliner was not on an errant course. They claimed the airliner was on a military mission to provoke their air defenses, which various authors, suspecting a U.S. cover-up, have supported. Add Brun to that camp, but with an extraordinary twist: he believes that, in addition to the airliner, at least 10 U.S. warplanes were shot down in a wild U.S.-Soviet air battle on the same night. Readers minutely interested in this novel theory can follow Brun's private investigation (he's a pilot by profession) as he tramps around Japanese beaches looking for aircraft debris. The flotsam he found--six years after the incident--somehow escaped the observation of searchers in 1983, but Brun is convinced the stuff came from the airliner. He also interprets the air traffic audiotapes as proving KAL 007 was living up to its spylike flight number. Maverick though Brun's dogfight thesis appears to skeptics, it should take with readers ready to reexamine the tragedy in detail. Gilbert Taylor

About this edition

• Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1568580541
• ISBN 13: 9781568580548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328