[Premium-Rx] Fw: Re: wj 205 / RS-160 receiver

[Peter Ratuschni]

Terry,
thanks for pointing out the historical context.
I read the transcripts of flight 007 on wikisource. It is shocking what human errors and deficient technical concepts of the auto pilot and communication caused.
It is interesting that the non military use of gps was allowed as a consequence of this incident.

b.r.
Peter

> The most notable use of this combination was 
> for recording the pilot of the Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 that shot down the 
> Korean Airlines KAL 007, the recording Pres. Reagan released to the 
> press over the vehement objections of the NSA.