NBC Nightly News - 1983-09-01
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[0:03] I'm Roger Mud, NBC News, Washington.
[0:07] The United States today accused the
[0:08] Soviet Union of shooting down a Korean
[0:10] airline jumbo jet carrying 269,
[0:13] including Congressman Larry McDonald of
[0:15] Georgia and perhaps 30 other Americans.
[0:18] There are not thought to be any
[0:19] survivors. The airliner, which
[0:21] originated in New York, was on a flight
[0:23] from Anchorage, Alaska, to Soul, South
[0:25] Korea. The US claimed that Soviet
[0:27] fighters tracked the Korean 747 for more
[0:30] than two hours as it swerved off course
[0:32] and wandered in and out of Soviet
[0:34] airspace over Sucaline Island north of
[0:36] Japan yesterday afternoon Eastern time.
[0:38] Today, Secretary of State George
[0:40] Schultz, his fury barely under control,
[0:42] gave this minute-by-minute account. At
[0:45] approximately 1600 hours, Greenwich
[0:48] meantime,
[0:49] the aircraft came to the attention of
[0:51] Soviet radar.
[0:54] It was tracked constantly by the Soviets
[0:56] from that time.
[0:59] The aircraft strayed into Soviet
[1:01] airspace over the Kamchatka Peninsula
[1:05] Peninsula and over the Sea of Akatsk and
[1:08] over the Sakalin Islands.
[1:11] The Soviets tracked the commercial
[1:13] airliner for some 2 and 1/2 hours.
[1:18] A Soviet pilot reported visual contact
[1:22] with the aircraft at 1812 hours.
[1:27] The Soviet plane was, we know, in
[1:29] constant contact with its ground
[1:31] control.
[1:34] At 1826 hours, the Soviet pilot reported
[1:38] that he fired a missile and the target
[1:41] was destroyed.
[1:44] At 18:30 hours, the Korean aircraft was
[1:46] reported by radar at 5,000 m. At 1838
[1:52] hours, the Korean plane disappeared from
[1:55] the radar screens.
[1:58] We know that at least eight Soviet
[2:01] fighters reacte