[Taylor42]

I'm only relating the story as he told it. However, I completely trust this individual. He's not the type to make something up to impress people. Actually he's more the mad scientist type, very smart and much too busy to care what people think of him.

[struwwelpeter]

Lots of rumors in the service, usually related by well-connected guys. Like the Area 51 and Wright Patterson stories, somebody always "heard it from a guy who heard it from a guy..." ;-)

Know the difference between a war story and a fairy tale? A fairy tale starts: "Once upon a time," and a war story begins with: "Now this ain't no s***!"

I'm waiting for our local "Russians" to show up and blame it all on the US like the libs do. Amazing, they can admit to murdering 8 million Ukrainians, but 269 Koreans and Americans had to be a US op.

[Alberta's Child]

If you're still in contact with him, you should ask him how this kind of thing could have worked: Did the Soviets track this guy's every move, until the day he just happened to be on a flight that strayed into Soviet airspace? This kind of stray flight doesn't happen very often, so they might have been waiting a very, very long time.

It just sounds to me like something is missing from this story.

[iopscusa]

Good post, I have wondered what happened. Seems there were enough stupid lefty/commie mistakes and lies to go around on this one. The Soviets were too dangerously stupid to trust and the South Koreans too stupid to fly, it is a sad story. Especially losing the Conservative Georgian Congressman. At least President Reagan found some use for this tragedy, he bludgeoned the Commies with it and made them pay!

[Chapita]

A 'spooky' cousin told me much the same, but could not answer "how did the Ruskies lure the plane so far off course".