On this day, 42 years ago, on September 1, 1983 (July 24, 1983, the mystery of a South Korean passenger plane being hit by a Soviet missile remains to be solved. The families of the victims are mourning. On September 1, 1983, South Korea's Korean Air passenger plane 007 was shot down by a Soviet Air Force missile. According to June 15, 1993, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea announced that the cause of the incident had now been ascertained. At the 139th Council meeting held in Montreal, Canada on June 14, 1993, the International Civil Aviation Organization released the final investigation report on the reasons for the departure of Korean Air passenger aircraft 007. The report's analysis determined that passenger aircraft 007 did not use the inertial navigation system to fly, but used the compass to fix it at 245 degrees, causing it to deviate from its original path. The plane was shot down by a missile from the former Soviet Air Force over Sakhalin Island. All 269 passengers and crew on board were killed. The spokesperson also said that through its investigation into this incident, the International Civil Aviation Organization has once again confirmed the basic principles of international law prohibiting the use of weapons against civil aircraft. On August 19, 1993, the South Korean government forwarded to the Russian government through the Russian Embassy in South Korea a letter including a request for the Russian government to compensate for the loss of life and property caused by the shooting down of a South Korean passenger plane by Soviet fighter jets 10 years ago. This is the first time that the South Korean government has formally filed a compensation claim with the Russian government for the incident. The letter did not propose a specific amount of compensation, but suggested that South Korea and Russia negotiate on the issue of compensation. According to statistics from Korean Air, the incident caused US$15 million in casualties and US$84 million in aircraft and operating losses. On August 30, 1993, Feratov, Director of the Russian President's Office and Chairman of the National Investigation Committee on the Boeing 747 Incident, authorized the announcement that the Soviet Union was not responsible for shooting down the South Korean passenger plane. It was the crew's breach of navigation rules and a series of unfortunate circumstances that led to the plane being shot down. He said that this was the conclusion reached after half a year of detailed research by 50 senior experts from five countries including Russia, the United States and South Korea. Feratov pointed out that the plane's 250-mile departure from the course could not have occurred accidentally, but was the result of undermining the regulations and instructions in effect at the time. On the other hand, the Soviet air defense system had been tracking the aircraft for more than two hours, but under night conditions it could not be identified as a passenger plane and mistakenly thought it was a reconnaissance aircraft. The Far East Military Command was justified in carrying out the attack in accordance with instructions from the General Staff of the Soviet Ministry of Defense on taking coercive measures against invading aircraft. In closed areas where missiles are being tested, firing at invading aircraft does not require prior warning. He also said the commission did not have enough material to confirm the conclusion that the aircraft was conducting reconnaissance flights, but that the series of serious mistakes made by the highly skilled crew during the flight were "embarrassing." What the hell is going on? On January 5, 1997, the Global Times published a report "I shot down Korean Airlines Flight 007", which may reveal something. It wrote: On September 1, 1983, Korean Airlines passenger plane 007 deviated hundreds of kilometers from its route and entered the sky above the most sensitive secret base in the Soviet Union. As a result, it was shot down, and all 269 people on board died. This is called the greatest tragedy of the Cold War (Yeltsin's words). Why did Korean Airlines 007 deviate from its own route? Did the Soviet Air Force make a fuss and ignore human lives? Did the Soviet pilot at that time knowingly commit the crime, or did he mistake the 007 passenger plane for an RC135 American reconnaissance plane? Did all the passengers on board die, or were some detained in the Soviet Union? Over the past 13 years, various theories surrounding these issues have been confusing. Not long ago, retired pilot Genati Ospivic, who personally piloted a Su-15 fighter jet to shoot down a South Korean passenger plane, revealed some little-known inside stories. At the end of August 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Ospivic was urgently recalled from his leave for standby. For several days, he lived in a cabin at the end of the runway of a secret base on Sakhalin Island, doing nothing. In the early morning of September 1,"I received an urgent order. An unidentified plane was flying across the Kamchatka Peninsula towards Sakhalin Island. For us, orders were everything and I had to take action. My mission was to intercept it 95 miles out of Soviet airspace. I quickly drove the plane to follow it. At a distance of 8 miles away, I could clearly see the big thing, including the lights on the head and tail. My first reaction was that this was a Soviet transport aircraft sent by the air defense department to test the air defense response speed, because I never expected it to be a foreign aircraft. U.S. intelligence aircraft usually only flew along Soviet borders, while Western commercial aircraft could not carry passengers to Soviet military sites hundreds of miles away on established routes." "After following it for 60 miles, I climbed to an altitude of 10000 meters in the Su-15 and flew next to it to have a look. At 150 or 200 meters away, based on the lights and the shape of the windows, I judged it to be a civilian aircraft. I also saw two rows of windows. I knew it was a Boeing plane, a foreign plane!" But the lieutenant colonel couldn't see clearly the cockpit and passengers, which some experts believe was because most windows were closed at night. Although it was certain that it was a civilian aircraft, Lieutenant Colonel Ospivic, who grew up during the Cold War, saw it only as part of an anti-Soviet plot, rather than as a stray commercial aircraft. The situation was urgent and he did not describe in detail what he saw to the ground commander. "I didn't tell them it was a Boeing plane, and they didn't ask me. I only said I saw a light on. It might be a transport plane." To this day, some people still believe that the lieutenant colonel made his superiors overreact. The lieutenant colonel said that he wanted to shoot it down as soon as it crossed the border, but unfortunately, the superiors disagreed. "They ordered me to intercept it and make a forced landing." In order to force it to land, the lieutenant colonel fired three times, firing a total of 520 rounds. The artillery was not equipped with tracer bullets, so it was too dark to see. But the lieutenant colonel still believes that the South Korean pilot should be able to see artillery fire and lights, a signal to make a forced landing or open fire. A few minutes later, Korean Airlines 007 had flown to the sea and could no longer delay. The lieutenant colonel fired two air-to-air missiles and accurately hit the target. Korean Airlines 007 fell into the sea. "I really want to land it, very much. Do you think I want to kill him? I still want to have a drink with him!" said the lieutenant colonel. Although he knew it was a civilian airliner, the lieutenant colonel insisted that it had a special mission and had no passengers on board. He did not regret destroying it with his own hands, and even felt honored for it. What made him less satisfied was that the bonus given by the Soviet authorities was lower than his expectations: 200 rubles had to be deducted from the remittance fee! South Korean passenger plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Force. Family members of the victims of South Korea's Boeing-747 passenger plane burst into tears. South Korean people rallied to protest