Re: KAL007 Coldwar Mystery

Pat Flannery <flanner@daktel.com> wrote:

:Fred J. McCall wrote:
:>
:>The difference being, of course, that the Russians ID'd the thing,
:>followed it for a while, and THEN shot it down, while in the case of
:>Robocruiser they screwed up and thought it was something else.
:
:The Soviets thought it was the RC or EC-135 that had been prowling
:around earlier that night or was somehow related to it.

That may be what they thought originally, but they went in to VID it
before they fired and knew at that point it was not.

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