[_Jim]

The article I read also said that it was possible for the Soviets to trick the airliner into flying into soviet airspace through electronic manipulation.

Pretty good trick - considering that flight on that leg of the trip would have been via Inertial Nav -

- that means the Soviets would have had to manipulate time, gravity and space in order to 'trick' the KAL007 flight director ...

[Poohbah]

Well, they DO, if you believe Thomas Bearden...

[Red Jones]

the flight was from Alaska to Seoul Korea, it was only a little bit out of their way to get into soviet airspace. Somehow it got there, it was slightly off its planned path when shot down, could've been a mistake by those flying the plane or it could've been caused by soviet deception through electronic means.