112th Congress, 2nd Session
September 01, 1983
On this date, Representative Larry P. McDonald of Georgia, along with 268 other passengers and crew aboard Korean Airlines Flight 007, was killed when a Soviet fighter plane shot down the unarmed civilian Boeing 747 airliner near Sakhalin Island after it had strayed into Russian airspace.
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