At exactly three a.m. local time on August 31, 1983, a Korean Air Lines 747 took off from Anchorage (Alaska) International Airport on the final leg of its scheduled flight from New York to Seoul, South Korea. Aboard were 240 passengers, a cabin crew of 20, a three-man flight crew and six other KAL crew members deadheading back to Seoul. Within a few minutes after leaving the ground, KE007 began deviating from its assigned course. In time, the deviation would take the jumbo jet twice into the airspace of the Soviet Union -- once over the Kamchatka Peninsula, the second time over Sakhalin Island. Over Sakhalin, five hours and twenty-six minutes after takeoff, KE007 was struck by two Anab missiles fired by the pilot of a Soviet SU-15 interceptor, a colonel in the USSR's Air Defense Forces named Gennadiy N. Osipovich. Twelve minutes later, the aircraft plunged into the Gulf of Tartary just west of Sakhalin. There were no survivors.

How could this aircraft have gone astray? As readers will discover, it did not go astray. We are certain that our sifting of the navigational evidence will prove to any fair-minded reader that KE007's flight crew flew their aircraft on a preplanned course designed to take it into Soviet airspace, a course in which the waypoints were carefully and accurately programmed into its navigational systems on the ground at Anchorage.

-- From the introduction to "Desired Track"

Desired Track. The Tragic Flight of KAL 007
by James Gollin and Robert Allardyce.
Two volume set with map. 330 pages, softcover. ISBN 1-883868-07-7. $26.00 plus S&H.
Contact Robert Allardyce by e-mail at rallardyce@avweb.com, by telephone at 1-413-443-2516, by FAX at 1-413-442-8093 or by mail:

DESIRED TRACK.
P. O. Box 2391.
Pittsfield, MA 01202-2391.

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