What REALLY happened Korean Flight 007?? 

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"Asleep at the wheel" is the phrase that best describes this crew. So many mistakes and failures to pay attention to detail is bordering on criminal negligence. 🌵🌵🌵

I remember when this happened and thought it was strange that a commercial airline with the flight number "007" would be shot down for spying. It was a very disturbing event and during a very turbulent and dangerous time.

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My driving instructor advised me that sometimes drivers' mistakes on the road are not because they lack experience, but because they feel they understand everything. I think this advice works for everything.

We were stationed @ Anderson AFB in Guam when this happened. Dad was a SAC B-52 radar navigator, the perfect military specimen to fly around with nuclear weapons. He never let on about the stress/pressures he was working under as they were top secret but we went from having him home between alerts (twice a month) to he wasn’t home the next morning when we woke up & was gone for months. Man I wish I could ask Dad about this specific time period, sadly he passed very young at 56.

I'd venture that negligence over the whole trip kind of makes sense. Certain aspects of Korean culture, from my understanding, seem to be focused on not rocking the boat and keeping to appearances. Look at the behavior around the Sewol Ferry disaster. A ferry full of children capsized, and one thing rescuers tried to do was to connect an air hose under the boat to supply them with air while they worked on another plan. The divers were unable to do that, but they claimed that they succeeded because the president was watching. One, or some of the pilots may have done something similar. They may have made a mistake but did not want to announce that for fear of causing trouble and looking bad in front of the other pilots, so they just kept quiet because everything was good up until then.

That flight 007 strayed way too far off course, even worse still is the fact the crew was completely oblivious to their own flight plan made no correction and remained in the dark until it was too late.

RU-vid decided I must be bored of boat-related incidents and aviation accidents are next. They weren't wrong, I've binged almost this entire channel.

I have seen older videos about this incident, but this video gets in a lot more facts and explanations. Im now astonished that a previous airliner had been shot down belonging to KAL and these pilots in the 747 were so negligent in not knowing their location or failing to verify as per their own procedures, or were trying to take some kind of "short cut".

Honestly it is difficult to blame the Soviets in this instance. Those pilots made so many errors, Cold War tensions were so high, and the RC-135 being where it was just sealed the deal

I believe a great explanation is that they did put the AP in INS mode as they passed BET, but as they were already so off course, the AP never actually switched to INS mode and instead just continued on the "armed" state awaiting the plane to intercept the original route. From my understanding, the plane must be within 1 NM of its course to switch ( at least on more modern planes ). Thus the plane just continued on the heading they originally selected when traveling to BET. The rest is how you described, ignoring sign after sign they were going off course until finally being intercepted.

Great video. It will be interesting to see your coverage of other commercial airliners unfortunately lost in conflict zones such as Iran Air Flight 655, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752...

Unfortunately, doctors also fall into the same Confirmation Biases as some become too desensitized. Once when I was an Aircraft Ground Dispatcher, I made my SOP to time my walkie-talkie clock to the aircraft's chronometer so that I can match my ground handling performance with the published time of the aircraft's onboard digital clock. I notice A330-200 was almost 15 minutes in advance. I alerted the Captain and he simply shrugged his shoulders by looking at his Breitling watch and said "Well I always keep my watch 25 minutes ahead" Surprinsly Co-Pilot who was also wearing the same show-off expensive Breitling had a similar non-aligned time and he too was off-timed! I looked at my reliable & cheap Casio & worked on the published schedule. However, I reported this incident to the base control that there was a possibility of flight delay allocation as the A330-200 cockpit chronometer is incorrect. The aircraft pushed back the ACARS timing came out as per the aircraft's digital clock. I was trying to figure out how to allocate this delay: What evidence do I have other than relaying a message to the base control? Interestingly, after 15 minutes returned back to the stand as the Flight deck crew noticed the malfunctioning of the GPS which was also in conjunction with the chronometer. I went into the cockpit and this time Capating embarrassingly accepted his mistake (Confirmation Bias). The aircraft was fixed and departed with an hour-long delay. However, this time I allocated the delay to the Captain's mistake.

God, it was so annoying how foolish these pilots were and how easy it was for them to fix the mistakes that caused disaster. Human negligence is always aggravating

Your videos are absolutely fantastic. I have zero flight experience, no one in my family or friends have anything to do with planes, but this is truly fantastic work. Great story telling, visuals, everything!

Best Aviation related content I've seen. This channel has made me way more interested in the level of understanding involved in flying an aircraft.

I'd love to know more about the other Korean Air that was shot down and managed to land! And I couldn't agree more with all the other comments about this channel. I'm always so happy when a new informative, suspenseful (but not sensationalized) and thought provoking episode drops. Thank you!

Oldies but goldies for me. I flew many times on NOPAC between Anchorage or Fairbanks and Japan on "classic" 747. Navigation had to be strictly monitored...Good illustrative video .

I have to admit that I've never been interested in aviation-like topic and I found Your channel just recently, around 2-3 days ago by RU-vid recommendation. I'm so glad I decided to play Your video cuz now I'm kind of addicted to listen all of these stories- and even tho english isn't my mother language I have no problems with undestanding what's going on, thanks to Your explanations. Can't wait for another upload from Ya, once again- thanks a lot and keep going, Youre awesome! :D

Very well explained and fascinating . It is true that KAL had an appalling safety record at this time with a military hierarchical gung hoo attitude in the cockpit . Another proposition was that the initial ANC stand coordinates were incorrectly inscribed into the INS systems and therefore could explain the wayward course of the aircraft .

Having watched a few different versions of this story, I like the your choice to layout the narrative and chronicle the mistakes along way rather than splitting them into two chunks and retelling the narrative again and again. That being said, I'm also enjoying your longer format video! Great jorb again!

Hey Emmet (GDA's owner), there was another accident related to pilot error, which is this Korean Air Lines flight 15. A Boeing 747-200 hull loss. Would you make a video about it in the near future??

Mate, your explanation of complex terms like Heading Mode & NAV Mode was excellent. A very sad incident though but your video reconstructed it well.

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Ive been a Mentour Pilot guy for like 2 years, but this is impressive. Keep up the good work

This story really infuriates me because the unprofessionalism of these pilots cost the lives of many.

RIP To the passengers and crew of Korean Air Lines Flight 007

In the last few days of July 1983, while in the Marine Corps, my unit was sent from Camp Fuji (Mt. Fuji) to Yokosuka Navy base to board the USS Tripoli on our way to South Korea. After being out at sea for a few hours on August 1st, we were dispatched to the northern part of The Sea Of Japan to hunt for debris or survivors from this incident. We did NOT find anything and went to dock at a civilian port in Hokkaido. I remember this like it was yesterday.

Great video! This one has always peaked my curiosity as the INS was the primary navigation method used on these flights. My understanding is that even the most accurate (pre Honeywell GPINS) suffered from drift due to changes in attitude, altitude, and speed coupled with the rotation of the Earth which compounded over time. The above leading to the INS requiring regular updates or "fixes" in the same way an exigent spouse requires reassurance. The method for the fixes (depending on the aircraft type) could be: 1: Visual by directly overflying a landmark on the flightplan and performing an update. 2: Radio using predeterminded VOR/DME aids to determine distance and bearing from the marker, corresponding it with a waypoint on the flightplan, making the appropriate corrections and updating the INS accordingly. 3: Radar (presumably only military terrain mapping radar - not sure on this), again, like visual, setting a waypoint to a distinct terrain feature and performing a manual update as you overfly. Knowing just a little about INS my presumption was that you had to be on it at regular intervals and that the crew had buggered up a calculation on one of the later fixes in the flight. I did not previously know that they basically seemed to have not bothered their holes double checking or verifying anything, it's obvious now that most likely the captain developed a 'shortcut' and due to either familiarity or Korean culture (read - always defer to seniority and never question authority, Confucius has more blood on his hands than the worst dictators combined) and poor CRM no one questioned this. As for the Soviet actions, predictable really. As you stated there had been a previous round of firings. Couple that with the way authoritarian systems operate and the actions were more or less pre-determined. The GCI staff were being ridden like donkeys by their superiors, like the CRM of the airline questioning a superior was a 'no no', this can happen in any organisation/military/department as organisations have distinct cultures, but it is much more likely in cultures where individuality is frowned upon. I saw an interview with the one of the Soviet pilots, not a hint of guilt which is standard for military aircrews as their remoteness from the visceral result of their actions provides a comfortable insulation. It seems the report is the most likely conclusion, they set a heading and kicked back...

i was crew on a HC-130 Air Rescue aircraft that was the first on scene, we had been directed by orders from the president ( through a general ) to prosecute the search into Soviet airspace. At this time in the early hours of the shootdown it was still classified. We were shocked we knew it was shot down. All we found were seat cushions and odd pieces of wreckage. The whole time we were under threat of shootdown ourselves and discussed over intercom that we might be the start of WW 3. A very surreal experience.

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As a korean, i want to notify that there's one this missing when explaining the cause of the aircraft's hard to explain inability to check their position. Korean airlines during this time was an extremely rough airline to fly in. Since korea's air force was quite large and the government regulated the pilots into flying for only korean lines, almost all of korean airline's pilots were some of the best produced by the ROK air force, since their only possible career after the air force was korean airlines. Due to this, the airline was quite toxic to its pilots with this added power over them and korean cultural aspects that other commenters had mentioned. Many flights during this era of korean airlines saw the pilots severely stressed beyond what's imaginable by modern airlines. Crucially, pilots were forced to meet quotas and goals set by the company no matter what, forcing them very frequently to push hard flights with broken or ill-maintained instruments. Add the exhausted crew with little to no rest, is a recipie for complete disaster. Even though the pilots gave their best, which is evident when one was shot on its wings over kola peninsula, the pilot was very experienced and managed to land the stricken plane on a frozen lake. This accident was caused not by pilots, but the company and its culture. I think this is the case that applies on this incident. Pilots absolutely pushed to their limits with faulty equipment. But after they were reorganised, they've been one of the safest.

Failing to turn the Auto-pilot knob from Heading to INS after takeoff was something the crew should've noticed. It's not the first time a simple error has led to a disaster. I remember the Summer of '83. I was 16. A close friend of mine in school talked in September and October how sure we were that an impending nuclear war was about to happen. There was a weird feeling in the air that was hard to describe that Summer. We truly dodged a bullet by not going to war. Now once again that feeling has returned except this time the public is distracted and blissfully unaware of the possibiliy of nuclear waronce again. Summer 2023 fourty years after the Summer of 1983. Hopefully we dodge this oncoming bullet.

Dude this is such a great, informative video. Absolutely love your longer videos, especially how high quality they are! Keep it up dude!

Soviet military aircraft in 1980' routinely invaded. Philippine Miltary Air Space. US & Philippine military never shot down these pilots provocations. USSR shot down Civilian Airline for no good reason.😢 I was Assigned to Clark AFB in 1980's One military man opinion!

So Rusia/USSR hold the world record in shooting down commercial airplanes with missile...what an "achievements".

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Why did the USSR retain the CVR for so long and why was there splices in the recording tape which proved to be done intentionally? For those whom feel that the flight deck was the most responsible for this incident, I can only say I wasn’t onboard and can not say with certainty if that opinion is true. I will say they were at fault in some point/way for shear negligence to confirm their nav’s were correct etc. I resided in Anchorage at this time of incident but still don’t know everything that’s been told as truthful. The Russian, USSR did not prevent this incident from happening either. Those 2 pilots did speak up after the CVR was reviewed by the NTSB and I am sorry they were made to do such a thing. I feel they could’ve flown up near the cockpit and verify the aircraft as a passenger aircraft or even could’ve flew ahead of the 747 and drop flares for a visual effect. They did neither and this contributed to this disaster. Lessons were learned from this disaster and sadly that’s how we humans learn things from and hopefully do not repeat the same ending. Peace to all affected.

I think more than likely, it was pilot error due to culture. If you know anything about Korean culture, Age/Rank/Seniority plays a huge role in society. I would bet one of the other pilots noticed they were off, but were too scared/hesitant to question the captain.

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This is really good! But I’d like to point out one time-related error. You used GMT time, which had been replaced by UTC back in 1972. Since 1972, GMT is only a local time zone for London, only for the winter (summer is BST), so London time (GMT/BST) now jumps around based on Daylight Saving Time.

The Navigation mode will not capture if the airplane deviates more than a certain amount from the actual coordinates. And they had already exceeded this by the time they reached that way point. So even if they enabled INS mode, it still would not have engaged and the autopilot would have continued to fly in heading select. They were trying to communicate via the plane following them as they flew out of VHF range. Surely someone should have warned them.

I hate to say it but at least 60% of the blame is on the pilots' negligence and complacency. I want to villify the soviets for being so eager to shoot down the plane, but this incident had 0 reason to come anywhere close to that. Its like a cop shooting someone waving an airsoft gun around and being oblivious. The soviets massively failed to identify the aircraft but with the pressure i cant see a universe where this situation wasnt so ridiculous the soviets of all people wouldn't end up shooting down the plane

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Captain Sullivan by name, Captain Sullivan by nature. Just like his namesake on the Hudson, he, and his flight crew, are heroes.

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One of the passengers who was killed on KAL 007 was US Representative Larry McDonald (D-Ga). He was supposed to be accompanied by three other Congress members, US Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), US Representative Carroll Hubbard (D-KY), and US Senator Steve Symms (R-ID). Wikipedia mentions reasons that two of the three survivors didn’t get on the plane. But there's no explanation of why Senator Symms didn't join his fellow conservative. This gave the appearance that maybe the others took the warning to stay off KAL 007 but McDonald was being all macho and decided keep on.

They were flying decoy for the RC135, and figured if the Soviet's scramble fighters they would realise its a civilian airliner and just shoo it away from their airspace.

Hell yeah, I get to watch this twice in one day!

I remember very well when this happened...I was a child growing up in the US and was horrified, believing the Reagan administration's propaganda, that the USSR knowingly and deliberately blew a passenger plane out of the sky. When the truth came out a few years later, that they had known all along that the Soviets had made a terrible mistake, I was furious! But a lot of people never got that news. Then the US did the same thing to an Iranian passenger plane late in the Bush administration (George I, not W), and suddenly it was "oh...it was a terrible mistake...it can happen". Some news pundits pointed out (completely UN-ironicaly) that "the Iranian Regime will surely MISrepresent this accident and use it as anti-American propaganda!"

I was in Anchorage when this happened! The swat team was racing to the airport, there was a huge chaos! All the news channels were covering this non-stop! What a tragedy!

I started to binge this channel the other day and I'm really excited to see you posted a new video today. Your retelling of events and recreations of the flight make for such great content. Keep it coming please

Absolutely stellar work

Did you reupload because of the NoMedia error message? No worries, I will watch it again. Least I can do.

It's not Ronald Reagan or disco that's a blast from the past, but the pre-GPS inertial navigation.

Tbf I'm actually leaning on the Russian theory here. It makes the most sense without having to explain so many different deviations and SoP inconsistencies from the pilots. They got lazy and flew the quickest route with the least programming.

I took a class called 20th century Russia this year, and for that, I wrote a report on this flight. Really wish I had this video at the time for a source…

This is the incident that made GPS a public service

As a pilot, I have to say the knowledge and information on your videos is top notch. Either you or a consultant are in aviation because I can't fault these videos one bit.

Great video brother! First time watching, you gained a subscriber!

I know there was a US representative on the plane that caused a big stink, but after it was shot down the USSR recovered the wreck and did discover it was civilian but obviously weren't going to publicly admit it. Honestly it's 100% on the pilots, obviously it was an extreme reaction but allied forces would have done the same thing, though likely been a little more observation and tactful I just don't know why they didn't radio them instead of using an IFF After this the US made GPS much more accessible

I'm sure I saw a recent documentary where they interviewed one of the pilots that shot the airliner down. He stated he knew it was a commercial aircraft and stated so to his commanders. They overruled him and ordered it be taken down. I may very well be wrong, and often am.

The RC-135 was the Cobra Ball aircraft. I was a mission director on board the USNS Observation Island (Cobra Judy).

I think the russians theory may have been correct. That would be an insane coincidense if the pilots accidentally left the plane on a heading DIRECT to their destination

I agree with this channel being extremely good, but commenters should be more inlcined towards commenting in context to the video topic rather than how good the channel is.

Can you imagine the panic in the passenger cabin after a missile hits the plane? These poor souls.

Three of those in control were very high hours flyers. Complacency comes to mind. You can see it every discipline including motor racing. That’s how winners lose because of a .50 cent clip. There is no excuse. The pilots were all engaged in an orgy or a wild game of poker

I find it unthinkable that the pilots of this flight would deliberately program a flight plan that would take them over restricted airspace. I believe that they were absolutely and unforgivably negligent by not following international and their airline's mandatory flight checks. The aberration that most stands out to me is that first deviation from the established flight route. By deviating from the normal flight plan, the pilots set up the plane's navigation system to a "manual" mode and, either by sheer negligence or unacceptable forgetfulness, failed to reset it once they should have reached the second waypoint. In essence, they involuntarily committed suicide, taking with them hundreds of other lives. As someone with many years of military experience, I can say with absolute certainty that you must not deviate from the plan unless you and your team are in a hazardous and probably fatal emergency. If a change must be made, then it is the team leader's responsibility to confirm the change with anyone and everyone connected to the mission. Not doing so may very well result in a "blue on blue" event where the team is destroyed by "friendly fire". It was this failure to do so that caused this aircraft to get shot down. Except it was not downed by "friendly fire". I am not taking sides here, but I do not find the Russian response to the incursion to be unreasonable. If the same aircraft flew over sensitive US military installations in US airspace that had been declared as restricted under the same circumstances, the US air force would have probably done the exact same thing. Which, by the way, has happened. No excuses here. The pilots of Korean Air flight 007 are absolutely and positively responsible for getting their aircraft shot down.

The negligence of KA17 was STUNNING. Absolutely jaw dropping. Were they even sober?

extremely good video, just subbed. but maybe next time give a bit of space before giving away a majority of what happens in context? idk just me but i had my eyes sort of stray down and spoil it

Wait weren’t these old flights supposed to have navigators ?

I really hope my vacation isn’t turned into one of these videos

Man.. to the owner of this channel... I don't give two shits about planes or this topic.. but.. the way you tell the story and do it with visual aids to help the viewer see what's going on.. man.. these videos are addicting.. props to your video making talents

These context cards from RU-vid need to come with a spoiler alert

Narration is excellent. For a lay person in Aviation like me I understood the content perfectly. Thank you. RIP to the deceased.

I was stationed at Kadena than as a member of the 961st AWACS. We flew 22 hrs per flight and turning around in 4 hours each .fighting top cover for the recovery

Just one suggestion, please add pilots and passengers in the animation of plane interior. It kinda look odd to see empty plane and think it is flying

I flew those routes in both DC-8's and 747's. I flew the 747 Classics 19 years. I have a hard time believing the crew could sit there for hours and not notice the difference between INS and Heading mode. In the era of long distance flying manual plotting and cross checking was standard procedure across all airlines. In International flying there is always something to do or check to ascertain your nav equipment is working properly. They should've known something was awry from their first position report. We studied this tragedy in the training dept. at my company for many years. Plenty of conspiracy theories out there too.

People with lots of experience on a job frequently become lackadaisical about what they are doing. This always irritated me. I was an inspector/auditor. Sometimes it bites them in the ass big time.

I can't help but wonder about the mental state of the man flying the fighter jet who actually shot down the passenger plane. He thought he was shooting down an enemy soldier or two. Then to find out he killed over 200 innocent people who weren't even from the enemy country? That has to mess a person up.

My Congressman, Larry McDonald (D-Ga 7th District), was aboard KAL 007 when it was shot down. Rep. McDonald was the nephew of General George S. Patton, Jr. I personally believe the pilots flew the “erroneous” path intentionally.

It's a case of some people, especially from certain cultures and countries, not wanting to admit any mistakes they've made. I wonder if that was the case with flight 007?

The real question is, are the NAV lights on?

Remember the other Korean Airlines (call sign KAL902) plane that was shot down after straying into Soviet airspace, in 1978? What I find weird is that while it was in the news at the time, I remember my parents talking the story in the newspaper, it was rarely mentioned again. I wonder how many other airline companies strayed multiple times into Soviet airspace and were shot down, apart from Korean Airliens KAL902 and KAL007? South Korea at the time was still a military dictatorship. Democracy was only introduced in 1988. Korean Airlines Captain came mostly from the South Korean Airforce, were placed in Captain positions asap and were venerated and undoubtedly their orders were blindly followed. And of course South Korea was a close ally of the USA, with numerous American military bases, ships, vehicles and personnel based around the country. Korean Airlines, with its seasoned veteran former airforce Captains was the ideal asset for the Americans to provoke the Soviet Union. It was also a great coincidence that KAL007 entered Soviet airspace around the same time and position as the US spyplane. I don't think the American/South Korean military intelligence thought that the Soviets would actually shoot KAL007 down. Korean Airlines has probably done more 'special flights' for the USA than we know from the regular media. All a Captain had to do was stray from his course, 'accidentally' enter Soviet airspace and get out again before being intercepted. Only this time they definitely pressed their luck. When the Discovery Channel still made decent documentaries, I saw one about KAL007. Wrong coordinates were deliberately entered into the flight computer before it took off from Anchorage, Alaska. Some critics said that the plane was moved before the computer was properly set, causing the errors in navigation. In my opinion, not likely because with such an experienced flight crew, why did they suddenly forget how to properly program the flight computer (and not move the plane)? Only after the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner in 1988, did the world believe that it was a tragic error made by the Captain and crew of the American warvessel. The Vincennes had strayed into Iranian territorial waters after chasing a few Iranian gunboats and after the American ship detected an incoming plane, they feared it was an Iranian F-14 fighterplane. After repeatedly warning the Iranian airbus that it would be shot down if it did not stop its agressive maneuvering, the Vincennes destroyed the plane, killing 290 people. Just like the Soviets in 1983, the Americans only used military frequencies to warn the Iranian plane, they did not use the civilian frequencies. And American military always informs the rest of the world that their personnel have the right to defend themselves, even after entering another nation's territorial waters.

What i don't get is the captin and first officer were both ex military! How could they have been so care free when it came to sign's things were off?

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Modern day Russian shut down Malaysia airplane flying over Ukraine and blamed Ukraine. They never change. 🤷

Yeah, strange that friendly radar didn’t notice early on that flight deviated from plotted course & into Soviet airspace.

I have developed an INS fir flight simulation and it may be possible that it works like the real thing : when you are flying to the next way point, the distance to this way point obviously decreases. As soon as the distance increases, it means you have passed the waypoint and the INS switches to the next one. If this is true, it may explain why the INS indicated all the waypoint passed one after the other even if the aircraft was off course.

The fact that Korean 007 has its own Encyclopedia Britannica entry. Not many plane disasters are that lucky

how can 3 highly experienced pilots be so negligent? trusting autopilot blindly is one thing, but ignoring all warning signs seems rather odd

I was 19 at the time and remember the Soviets wouldn't allow search and rescue anywhere near the site. It was a very tense time, i can tell you!

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I remember this well. In 40 years no one covered it as well as this. Thank you Green Dot Aviation! #GreenDotAviation @GreenDotAviation

Two of my college classmates got off this flight in Anchorage when returning from a family visit in the lower 48. We attended Anchorage Community College for our Airframe and Powerplant schooling before we got our A&P licenses. Flight number 007 played tricks with our minds (Think James Bond) as we followed the investigation. The Russian pilot swears that he fired on a military jet and not a civilian bird. He drank himself to death in the time that followed afterwards. Guilty conscience drinking or just the Russian Vodka pastime? Maybe a USAF spy bird was shadowing this flight since it was flying so near the Russian super secret Petropavlovsk submarine base. It actually flew right over the base, didn't respond to any radio calls, and didn't respond to the warning shots. Well if the warning shot is the shot that hit the engine then I'd say it responded in the only manner that it could, it went down in a ball of fire.

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No mention of Dr Larry McDonald? You don't think he may have been a target? I certainly do

I agree with philmorris8862. Had they done there checklist they would have known to correct the flight path. It's a dam shame that the pilots died instead of having to answer for their neglect behavior. I'm also amazed that the interceptors didn't catch up to the plane to confirm the identity. Either way it was a tragedy that many people lost their lives because of a cockpit full of idiots. This explanation is a lot better than 9/11 that is also my opinion. Great video. 👍 sad outcome for sure.