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blackbootz · 3558 days ago · link · · parent · post: How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia Airlines plane is?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007 First off, holy shit. The Soviet Union once shot a commercial plane down? With hundreds of people and a US Congressman on-board?! And this was during the Cold War? I've never heard this before. And to add to the goat-getter, the last paragraph: wat. Add that to the list of hugely significant (and recent!) geopolitical events that I've never heard of.In addition, the event was one of the most important single events that prompted the Reagan administration to allow worldwide access to the United States military's GNSS system, which was classified at the time. Today this system is widely known as GPS.