Korean Air Lines Flight 902
Korean Air Lines Flight 902 (KAL 902) was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from Paris to Seoul via Anchorage. On 20 April 1978, the Soviet air defense shot down the aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 707, near Murmansk, Soviet Union, after the aircraft violated Soviet airspace.
The plane after landing in the Soviet Union, with visible damage to its left wing | |
| Shootdown | |
|---|---|
| Date | 20 April 1978 |
| Summary | Shot down by Soviet Union |
| Site | near Loukhi, Karelian ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union 66°02′54″N 33°04′14″E |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 707-321B |
| Operator | Korean Air Lines |
| IATA flight No. | KE902 |
| ICAO flight No. | KAL902 |
| Call sign | KOREAN AIR 902 |
| Registration | HL7429 |
| Flight origin | Orly Airport Paris, France |
| Stopover | Anchorage International Airport Anchorage, Alaska United States |
| Destination | Kimpo International Airport Seoul, South Korea |
| Occupants | 109 |
| Passengers | 97 |
| Crew | 12 |
| Fatalities | 2 |
| Survivors | 107 |
Flight 902 had veered off course over the Arctic Ocean and entered Soviet airspace near the Kola Peninsula, whereupon it was intercepted and fired upon by a Soviet fighter jet. The incident killed two of the 109 passengers and crew members aboard and forced the plane to make an emergency landing on the frozen Korpijärvi Lake near the Finnish border.
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