At that time, there was no Republic of Korea beside the victims.
SBS'I want to know that' aired on the 20th highlighted the KAL 007 shooting case under the subtitle'The traces of 269 disappeared-KAL 007 shooting down mystery'.
On September 1, 1983, Korean Air Flight 007 destined for Gimpo from New York was shot down after a missile attack by a Soviet fighter jet.
This incident killed 269 people, which was called the'KAL 007 killing incident'.
It was an unprecedented event that a civilian airliner was shot down by a fighter jet.
However, among the great powers of the United States and the Soviet Union, Korea was in a situation where only noticed, and it was not easy to clarify the truth.
In particular, even the bodies or relics of the victims could not be returned to the bereaved families, and the suspicion deepened.
And one bereaved family was informed by a mysterious bride that they had found their father's rental car card.
Joon-sun Yoo was convinced that it was the father when he saw his father's autograph and a card with his father's company name written on it.
He said, "It is certain that it has not been submerged for a long time," he explained. "When I asked the priest how he got it, he only said that it was obtained through an informant in Sakhalin.
As a result, Joon-sun Yoo has a question that his father is alive.
In addition, a business card, which is another victim's belongings, was also posted on the site where the remains of Yoo Jun-sun's father was found, attracting attention.
Accordingly, the production crew met the family of Son Soo-ja, the protagonist of the business card, after questioning.
The bereaved family looked at her mother's belongings, and said, "I don't want to believe this. How much more trouble would I have had if I were alive?" "I don't know why the mother's business card should come to the bereaved. I don't know why it was found here." Confessed his frustrated heart.
Then, on February 16, 38 years later, a confidential document from the US State Department related to the case was released.
In a classified document, the US side said, "This incident will be an opportunity to overturn the perception of the Soviet Union. It is getting closer to the hell of a nuclear war. The situation is getting worse," said the Soviet side. "Korean Air planes are probably spy missions. "I would have been practicing" he was revealing his position.
At the time of the incident, the Soviet Union said that the Sword 007 was an enemy aircraft that deliberately invaded Soviet airspace for US espionage activities and shot it down for its own defense. The US criticized it as the axis of evil that the Soviet Union lied and killed hundreds of innocent civilians. .
This was a position that was a bit far from the discussion of the secret document.
In 1992, Russian President Yeltsin presented as a gift a black box that no one had found when KAL 007 was shot down.
However, what they handed was the shell of the box without the recording device in the actual black box.
And they sent the recording device to France for analysis, and after completing the analysis, they returned it to Korea.
As a result of the black box analysis, the KAL 007 was shot down around Sakhalin, crossing a densely populated area of major Soviet military bases after deviating from its normal course.
This means that the pilot is flying in a heading mode where he sets his own route.
Experts explained, "Most of them use the navigation facilities of the INS automatic navigation system, but few captains use the heading mode."
Experts have made various inferences about the reason for the change to the heading mode, and analyzed that most of the heading mode may not have been deliberately used.
And experts analyzed that, through voice recording, the pilots had no awareness of the emergency situation at all, saying, "You may have gone well," he said.
Then there was an announcement about the emergency situation at 3:26 in the morning when a small explosion sound was heard behind the aircraft.
In response, an expert said, "The air pressure can escape at once by such an impact of the missile. The oxygen mask drops and the in-flight broadcast goes out."
In fact, the recording ended 1 minute and 44 seconds after being attacked, so I couldn't tell what had happened.
According to radar data, it is analyzed that the KAL 007 flew for at least 9 minutes after being attacked by Soviet fighters.
In response, the expert speculated, "I was hit by the long tail wing, but it was not up and down, so I continued to climb," he said. "Because there is no problem with the engine, the pilot must have controlled it until the hydraulic pressure disappeared."
However, in the situation where it was not possible to know exactly what happened in the nine minutes after the attack, numerous suspicions were raised.
In particular, the CIA's top secret document asserted that KAL 007 attempted an emergency landing at sea after being shot down, and the probability of landing was very high, further deepening the suspicion.
Accordingly, the suspicion of the bereaved families could not disappear.
Accordingly, the production crew contacted Yoo Jun-seon and found a bride who revealed that they had found her father's card.
The bride claimed that cards and business cards were found in Sakhalin in May of last year.
He explained, "The one who has it is in the United States. This is Burt Schrothberg. He contacted me when it was delivered."
Accordingly, the production crew conducted a video interview with Burt.
He did not believe in the official result of the death of all passengers.
He also raised several theories of passenger survival in this case.
And he said, "I got these from an official of the Russian Federation government. The Soviets said they found this card in the water, but there is no stain." Insisted.
It is said that he obtained the findings kept at the time of the incident from a person working in the Russian government.
He also said that he wanted to have the real thing, but couldn't, and the informant who helped him died.
And he didn't talk about any specific comments on the source.
The production crew received the help of experts to uncover the truth of the theory of survival.
Experts predicted the outcome of an emergency landing attempt with the speed and angle of the last-minute KAL 007 recorded in the black box.
"At this point," he said, "the aircraft will be completely destroyed and no large pieces can be found."
In addition, he analyzed, based on the video of a fall in a similar situation, "It will be a state of being in a state of shooting like a bullet into the water. It would have been such a situation where fragments were sagging in the water, where nothing could be found."
And he explained that an aircraft accident has a much greater impact than a land crash in the case of a sea level crash.
A forensic scientist believes that "if a gas has fallen toward the sea level, it is difficult for anyone to survive with the amount of physical impulse it receives. And whether the sea is north. If the seawater temperature is below 20 degrees, even a healthy man will not be able to withstand more than a day." Explained that it was sparse.
Nevertheless, he said he was wondering that there were no corpses or anything left behind.
A forensic scholar said, "2,30% of the body floats, the rest sink, and when it becomes corrupt, it is common to float," he argued. "If you searched hard, you would have found a lot of bodies."
A Russian reporter who visited Korea in 1992 claimed that shortly after the incident, the Soviet Union proceeded to systematically conceal black boxes and the bodies and remains of passengers.
The evidence was deliberately concealed in order to deny the fact that a civilian aircraft was shot down.
If so, it was highly likely that the card and business card photos the production crew was looking for were a memento acquired by someone during the process of concealing the remains at the time of the incident.
Accordingly, the production team tried to analyze the image information through an expert.
An expert analyzed, "It is a photo that was captured and copied and edited repeatedly on different computers in 2009 and 2012," and "It is highly likely that the floating photo was captured and processed."
Accordingly, the production crew searched for Russian media outlets and online information to find a documentary video produced by a Russian broadcaster in 2007.
The documentary claimed that it was only the US reconnaissance plane that the Soviets shot down, and that the KAL 007 shot may have been fabricated to put the Soviets at bay.
And in the documentary, the artifacts of the victims the production crew sought to source appeared.
When he contacted the broadcasting station and asked for the source of the picture, he explained, "I bought it from a Russian NTV station."
And when the production crew contacted another broadcaster that owns the copyright, the reply returned that it took at least a month to inquire the material and find the person in charge.
And in the video, relics of other passengers discovered in 1983 were also featured.
And earlier, the production crew found a similar picture that the bereaved family showed that they did not believe in the death of their father.
An image expert analyzed that the similarity of the protagonist in the two photos was very high by comparing the picture in the video with the picture shown by the bereaved family.
Then, for what reason did Han Jin-kyung's photo appear in the video?
The video made the absurd claim that Han Jin-gyeong's father was a Korean spy who went missing while on a US military reconnaissance plane.
Han Jin-kyung's father was a person who took an overseas cruise for his family and was returning to Korea on vacation, and the truth was completely different from the one claimed in the video.
Looking at the entire video, the first person to make this claim was French aviation expert Michelle Bron, who became famous by telling the story that the KAL 007 was an American reconnaissance plane.
And the cover of Michelle Bron's book published in 1995 was decorated with this picture of Han Jin-kyung.
It is reported that the photo was purchased by a French reporter from a Russian military official.
Accordingly, the production team contacted the author and the publisher, but none of them reached.
After a while, he explained these facts to Han Jin-gyeong, the daughter of the victim, Han Sung-seok.
As soon as the picture appeared in the video, Han Jin-kyung recognized it.
He said, "It's my picture."
And when he announced the claims in the book and video, he said, "I didn't know I would make up a story like that with a single picture of me. If I pass by without knowing this, my father is just a spy. I didn't know that my picture was spinning. I killed him many times," he shed tears in resentment.
Accordingly, the crew put the picture on the cover of the book in a frame and handed it over.
Han Jin-kyung said, "I didn't know you'd find it so far. One of my father's keepsakes is our father," and was desperate at the fact that his photo was used as evidence of conspiracy theory and was being traded for money.
He said, "So it seems that there was nothing coming back to us. The owner is us. I haven't asked, and I don't think we didn't even try to find the owner to find the picture."
In fact, a media outlet in Sakhalin recently reported that oil products of victims of the KAL 007 incident were being sold.
On September 1, 1983, reporters who encountered the killing of KAL 007 were the first to be sent specially to Wakkanai, Hokkaido, which is the closest to the area of the accident.
Reporter Kim Jae-bong, who had been covering in Wakkanai for a month at the time, explained, "There was a story that the Soviet Union had searched with 59 ships at that time. Soviet ships completely surrounded and searched, and Japanese ships observed with telescopes behind them."
Articles reported by Korean reporters at the time included a number of photos of debris and oil that had flowed to the Wakkanai Sea at the time, and the number reached 1059 points.
However, the only recognizable items were the ID cards of Canadian passengers, business cards of Taiwanese passengers, and passport photos of Korean hats.
And a month after the incident, the Aungsan incident broke out, and the interest of the domestic media fell away from the KAL 007 incident.
On the other hand, the Japanese media, where 28 victims were reported at the time, paid attention to the killing of KAL 007.
Reporter Takashi, who published the report on the record at the time, said, "About the collection and relics of harm, the Japanese press received great attention immediately after the incident," and "There was also an article on how the currents near Moneron Island were flowing." Explained.
In addition, it is known that Japan at the time prepared for the contrast work by examining the body information of Japanese passengers in advance.
The reporter added, "The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs persistently demanded the return of the memorabilia. As a result, the Soviet Union transferred the memento to Japan twice."
If so, what kind of efforts did our government make at the time?
The production crew searched for related records at the diplomatic institution.
A total of over 1,800 documents recorded the process of being refused to participate in the search and relics group by the Soviet Union.
These were data marked by the helplessness of small countries.
After all, the Korean government was able to receive only about 70 aircraft debris, 7 clothes, and 2 books from Japan, most of which were only items whose owners could not be identified.
Japanese producer Kawakami began to report after various disclosures were made through the Russian media in 1991.
He even photographed underwater at the crash site of the KAL 007 with the permission of the Russian military authorities at the time.
In the footage he shot, the remains of humans were also captured, along with the remains of the aircraft, such as huge tires, bent metal fragments, the outer wall of the telegraph, clothing, and life jackets.
In response, Kawakami said, "From the beginning, the Soviet Union consistently insisted that KAL 007 is the US spy reconnaissance plane. In such a situation, if the remains of the crew and passengers of the private airliner come out, it will be unfavorable evidence." I guessed about it.
He also said that Soviet divers who searched in 1983 kept photographs of the remains of the accident or relics.
Kawakami said, "I don't know what the purpose was or to plan for the future. It may have been brought in as a commemoration."
He also said, "Maybe it's the purpose of making money," he said, and bought a strange video from a video store in Russia and returned.
"It was a video containing testimony that he had seen a part of the body. At that time, it was worth tens of yen, but it would have been a big money for the Soviet people," he said.
The Soviet Union was in a hurry to conceal the truth, and the accident was neglected, and after the Cold War, the Russians made money on oil products.
It also turned out that the Soviet Union wasn't the only one hiding the truth.
It is true that the US sent reconnaissance planes several times at that time.
As a result, many also raised suspicions about why the United States was only watching the KAL aircraft even though it had seen the departure of the course.
One bereaved family argued, "Is it a simple accident or information activity hidden. If there is anything hidden by intelligence, the United States is also responsible."
CIA documents at the time argued that reconnaissance using civil aircraft was meaningless and unnecessary.
However, in a recently released document, the United States argued that the killing of KAL 007 is a good opportunity for the Soviet Union, and that "they should use international anger eloquently and focus on measures to establish multilateral solidarity."
The expert explained, "At the time, the US government expanded its armaments, imposed sanctions on the Soviet Union, and gained public support. This was the trigger for this incident."
And regarding the Soviet Union's consistent allegation of spying on KAL 007, he said, "It is not that innocent civilian aircraft were shot down, but that the retribution of spying aircraft is a subject that can be advertised to its own citizens and the communist world." "This is the cool rule of international politics."
At the end of the interview, the production crew told the truth to Yoo Jun-seon, who had reported and found his father's rental car card.
Having learned all the facts, he collapsed and said, "Korean Air encouraged a quick agreement, and the country also used this case as an ideological tool, as it was a mercenary or anti-communist, but there is no actual post-processing or such things clearly organized." It showed regret.
In fact, the government did not make any demands without going through the United States and Japan, not through the United States and Japan at the time.
At the time of the release of the black box, the bereaved family once again requested the Russian side to clarify the truth.
Yoo In-hak, who met with Russian officials as survivors' representatives at the time, said, "There are many tragic stories. Even if we continue to raise issues, it didn't matter." "It didn't work," he regretted.
Lastly, the broadcast said, “The egoism of the powerful nations, which tried to use the international tragedy to suit their own political interests, and the South Korea, a weak nation that failed to actively clarify the truth of the incident, left many victims. “After the end of the Cold War, the opportunity to find the truth has come. He stressed that it is time for the country to come forward for the bereaved families who are still waiting for their families who have yet to return, saying, "There was no Republic of Korea next to the Edo victims and their families.
(SBS Entertainment News Editor Kim Hyo-jeong)