How it was 13.02.2001 (2001)

Korean Boeing in the airspace of the USSR, 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 20th to 21st, an aircraft of unknown origin violated the airspace of the USSR from the Barents Sea in the area northeast of Murmansk.

Two hours after entering our airspace, the intruder aircraft landed on a lake near the town of Kem in the Karelian ASSR. The Soviet competent authorities are conducting an investigation."

Direct participants and witnesses of the incident tell about what really happened, how the plane of the South Korean airline ended up on the shore of a lake in Karelia.

Guests in the studio: Alexander Bosov and Sergey Slobodchikov, Leningrad Air defense fighter pilots in 1978, Yuri Kudryavtsev, head of the Loukh branch of the KGB in 1978, Mikhail Galakhov, 1st secretary of the Kemsky District Committee of the CPSU in 1978, Valentin Dudin, a member of the commission investigating the incident.

Interview fragments: Evgenia Umbacheva, a resident of Louhi village, Nikolai Karpan, head of the location station in 1978, Nikolai Martynov, chairman of the Kemsky district executive Committee in 1978, Svetlana Pasyukova, head of the department of the Kemsky District Committee of the CPSU in 1978, Yevgeny Koptev, head of the Kemsky House of Officers in 1978.

The program uses chronicle footage:

- News of the Day newsreel (April 22, 1978, plot for Lenin's anniversary);

- passenger aircraft, dispatchers, fighter jets lifting into the air, aircraft landing;

- an excerpt of a foreign report about a Korean Boeing 747 shot down over the territory of the USSR on September 1, 1983.