Korean Air Lines Flight 902

When

20 Apr 1978

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

66.05° N, 33.07° E

Description

1978 aircraft accident in the Soviet Union

Deaths

2

Injured

13

1978 aircraft shootdown over the Soviet Union

Korean Air Lines Flight 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.

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• Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A Soviet air defense plane shoots down Korean Air Lines Flight 902; the plane makes an emergency landing on a frozen lake”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un avion de la Korean Airlines sur la ligne Paris-Séoul via Anchorage doit se poser en catastrophe sur un lac gelé dans la région de Mourmansk après avoir été…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Южнокорейский Боинг-707, вторгшийся в воздушное пространство СССР, повреждён советским перехватчиком и совершил вынужденную посадку в районе Кеми”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “大韓航空機銃撃事件”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page