Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 85, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 December 1983 — Page 2

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 14, 1983

KAL 007 report:

Pilot never knew he was off course, hit by Soviet missile

MONTREAL (AP) - The pilot of a South Korean airliner shot down by Soviet fighters apparently never knew that he was off course, that the Soviets tried to intercept him or that his Boeing 747 was finally hit by an air-to-air missile, aviation investigators concluded. The 113-page report by eight technical experts on the staff of the International Civil Aviation Organization, also noted “a considerable degree of lack of alertness and attentiveness” by the flight crew of the doomed jumbo jet. The report was released Tuesday night. Korean Air Lines flight 007 was shot down just before dawn Sept. 1 over the Soviet island of Sakhalin near Japan, killing all 269 people aboard. The Soviets contended the plane was on a spy mission for the United States. Rather than adopt the report, the ICAO’s 33-member governing council voted Tuesday to put off further consideration until Jan. 23 and appeal to the Soviet Union to start cooperating with the inquiry. The council, in a two-day closed-door meeting, adopted a resolution, implicitly rebuking the Soviets, “exhorting all par-

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ties to cooperate fully in furnishing to ICAO without reservation all information at their disposal as soon as possible.” The ICAO is a United Nations agency. The United States urged the council, which adopted a resolution in September deploring the incident, to condemn the Soviet action. “The Soviet Union must face the condemnation of the international aviation community and the world’s citizenry who benefit from free and open use of the world’s airspace,” Federal Aviation Administration chief J. Lynn Helms told the council during its private session. A text of Helms’ remarks was made available Tuesday to reporters. Beyond condemnation, the

agency has no sanctions to impose against the Soviets. A proposed charter change, to be considered in April, would authorize expulsion of any nation that uses force against a civilian airliner. An emergency session of the council on Sept. 16 ordered the staff inquiry. Investigators then used a Boeing flight training simulator in Seattle to test theories of how the plane may have veered 200 miles north of its intended path. A Soviet investigation of the incident was attached as a 15page appendix to the ICAO report. It said the Korean flight was delayed 40 minutes to synchronize its approach to Soviet airspace with overpasses of a U.S. Ferret-D reconnaissance

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satellite. The Soviet report concludes that the Korean flight was “a specially planned intelligencegathering and provocative operation by the special services of the United States.” The ICAO experts said the daily departure of KAL’s New York to Seoul flight from its stop in Anchorage, Alaska, was routinely rescheduled to make sure it did not arrive before 6 a.m. local time, when customs and passenger services opened at the Seoul airport. Because unusually light headwinds explained the delay, the ICAO report says, the investigators discarded the Soviet spy hypothesis. The report says Soviet authorities, once assuming the flight was engaged in espionage, “did not make

New fighting in Beirut; cease-fire broken in Tripoli

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Lebanese army troops clashed today with anti-government militiamen in heavy fighting in the city’s southern neighborhoods and one soldier was killed, state radio reported. In Tripoli, PLO chairman Yasser Arafat’s loyalists traded mortar and automatic weapons fire with rival Palestinians early in the day, in violation of a five-week-old cease-fire and following two attacks by Israeli gunboats on the loyalists. State radio reported “heavy clashes with all kinds of weapons” at midday in Beirut neighborhoods along the “green line” dividing Christian east Beirut from the largely Moslem western sector. The radio said mortars were falling around the headquarters of the British contingent in the multinational peacekeeping force. A British officer contacted by telephone at the headquarters would not confirm the report. The new violence flared one day after U.S. Navy ships blasted anti-aircraft positions in Syrian-controlled territory east of Beirut. U.S. Officials

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exhaustive efforts to identify the aircraft through in-flight visual observations.” Transcripts of the Korean crew’s conversations with air traffic controllers in Anchorage and Tokyo are printed in the report. The investigators concluded: “There was no evidence to indicate that the flight crew of (Korean Air Lines) 007 was, at any time, aware of the flight’s deviation from its planned route.” “There was no indication that the flight crew of (Korean Air Lines) 007 was aware of the two interception attempts.” “Nothing in the last radio transmission suggested that the flight crew was aware of the reason for a rapid decompression.” ‘ ‘There was no indication of a major failure in the equipment of the aircraft....” Investigators considered but rejected as “too unlikely” that hijackers could have taken over the plane, the crew could have been suddenly incapacitated and that the entire guidance system could have failed or malfunctioned.

said the ships fired after antiaircraft batteries shot at U.S. reconnaissance jets. Warplanes flew over the capital about midday Wednesday, but their origin could not immediately be determined. A rocket-propelled grenade crashed ai uic u.o. marine DB»e as Druse and Christian militia men clashed nearby. “We had one RPG round impact on our northeastern perimeter,” said Marine spokesman Maj. Dennis Brooks. “No casualties nor damage were reported, and no fire returned.” Local radio stations said leftist Druse clashed with rightist Chistian militiamen, firing mortars anti-tank weapons and small arms in the hills overlooking the Marine base. But the fighting tapered off at dawn. The Tripoli fighting broke out Wednesday morning and one mortar round slammed into the guard post of the Lebanese army officers’ club in the city’s Kubbeh neighborhood, wounding two sentries, the state radio said.

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IMASA probing source of leak in Columbia explosion, fire

SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) A leak that caused an explosion and fire aboard Columbia as the space shuttle landed last week may be “straightforward” to fix, but it must be resolved before Challenger goes aloft next month,NASA says. The fire erupted in a rear compartment of Columbia just two minutes before it touched down at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., space agency officials said Tuesday. The six astronauts on board were unaware of the blaze and were not endangered because the fire which went out when the fuel was exhausted was in

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the stern far from the passenger compartment, officials at Johnson Space Center said. The fire was followed by an explosion that destroyed two fuel line valves shortly after landing Thursday, said officials at Johnson Space Center. NASA first learned of the fire Friday when technicians removed a panel and found the damage while preparing the shuttle for its cross-country trip back to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Glynn Lunney, the space center shuttle program manager, said the problem must be studied and understood before

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