How it was 13.02.2001 (2001)

Korean Boeing in Soviet airspace, 1978. On April 22, 1978, TASS informed the country about a strange incident on the northwestern section of the USSR state border: "On the night of April 20-21, an aircraft of unknown origin violated Soviet airspace from the Barents Sea in the area northeast of Murmansk.

Two hours after entering our airspace, the violating aircraft landed on a lake near the city of Kem in the Karelian ASSR. Soviet competent authorities are conducting an investigation." Direct participants and witnesses of the incident tell about what actually happened, how the South Korean airline's plane ended up on the shore of a lake in Karelia.

Guests in the studio: Leningrad Military District Air Defense fighter pilots in 1978 Alexander Bosov and Sergei Slobodchikov, head of the Loukhi KGB department in 1978 Yuri Kudryavtsev, 1st secretary of the Kemsky District Committee of the CPSU in 1978 Mikhail Galakhov, member of the commission investigating the incident Valentin Dudin.

Excerpts from interviews: resident of the village of Loukhi Evgeniya Umbacheva, head of the location station in 1978 Nikolai Karpan, chairman of the Kemsky District Executive Committee in 1978 Nikolai Martynov, head of the department of the Kemsky District Committee of the CPSU in 1978 Svetlana Pasyukova, head of the Kemsky Officers' Club in 1978 Evgeny Koptev.

The program uses footage from the newsreel: - the "News of the Day" newsreel (April 22, 1978, a story about Lenin's anniversary); - a passenger plane, air traffic controllers, fighter jets taking off, the plane landing; - an excerpt from a foreign report about a Korean Boeing 747 shot down over the territory of the USSR on September 1, 1983.