Never forget that slime-bucket leftist weekly The Nation blamed it all on the CIA, claiming they had the plane go off course deliberately to test Soviet defenses.
Yes, and there are blogs and web sites dedicated to these conspiracy theories. Some suggest that the many of the passengers are still alive and living other identities deep in desolate Russian provinces. It’s mind-boggling.
This plane went down on Sept. 1, 1983 and all passengers and crew died that night.