With some passion, though, he rejected continued comparisons between the downing of the Iran Air jetliner and that of the Korean jet in 1983.

The United States has acknowledged that the Soviet pilot fired warning shots before attacking the Korean jet.

The sanctions were imposed earlier this year after the bombing last November of a South Korean jet in which 115 people died.

They must have seen those South Korean jets coming almost as soon as they left their bases, and certainly long before they even crossed the DMZ.

Before long the Korean jets were on the defensive and forced to run south.

After an EC-121 aircraft was shot down by North Korean jets, Coontz was rushed into the Sea of Japan.

A South Korean jumbo jet slogging through a late-night downpour crashed yesterday in the jungle hills a few miles from a runway on Guam after the pilot reported trouble.

There was a flash, and then flames were boiling from the rear half of the stricken Korean jet.

Colonel Osipovich viewed the slowdown as an indication that the Korean jet had seen him and was trying to evade his pursuit.

We must recover the Korean jets immediately.