[Taylor42]

A buddy of mine who is a former Air Force Intel officer once told me that the plane was shot down to kill one of the passengers. When I asked him for details he refused to say anything else.

[twigs]

My boss at the time, who did have some decent contacts, always told me that it was shot down to kill McDonald. Supposedly, he had a list of current American Communist members. I would have thought they would have been known anyway, but there was something on that list that someone didn't want revealed. I have no idea whether or not there is any validity to this argument.

[Alberta's Child]

A buddy of mine who is a former Air Force Intel officer once told me that the plane was shot down to kill one of the passengers. When I asked him for details he refused to say anything else.

That sounds intriguing, but I think it's a lot of baloney -- mainly because the odds of this specific passenger being on a flight that just happened to stray into Soviet airspace are very remote. If they really wanted to kill someone, there are about a thousand ways to do it in a less conspicuous manner that wouldn't attract much attention.

[Mulder]

A buddy of mine who is a former Air Force Intel officer once told me that the plane was shot down to kill one of the passengers

That passenger was Congressman Larry McDonald from Georgia.

He was a democrat, but he supported the Constitution, and was very outspoken against the communists, CFR, and other groups trying to overthrow the Constitution.

He was also probably going to run for President in 1988, and I think he would have won.

The enemies of the Constitution weren't going to stand for that so they killed him.