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A Soviet jet interceptor shot down the civilian Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near the island of Sakhalin in the north Pacific, killing all 246 passengers and 23 crew on board.
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Korean Air Lines Flight 007
1983 aircraft shootdown in the Sea of Japan
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Sakhalin
Island in the Sea of Okhotsk
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