1983 The death of a South Korean Boeing near Sakhalin
35 years ago, on September 1, 1983, near Sakhalin, a Soviet Su-15 fighter shot down a South Korean Boeing 747 airliner with 269 people on board at an altitude of 11 km. Due to a malfunction of the autopilot, the Boeing, which was making a regular flight on the route New York - Anchorage - Seoul, deviated from the route and flew over Kamchatka and Sakhalin. Initially, the Soviet Union denied that the liner had been shot down by Soviet air defense forces.