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===Passengers and crew=== {| class="sortable wikitable floatright" style="font-size:85%;" |- !Nation||Victims |- | [[Australia]]|| style="text-align:center;" |2 |- | [[British Hong Kong]]|| style="text-align:center;" |12 |- | [[Canada]]||style="text-align:center;" |8 |- | [[Dominican Republic]]|| style="text-align:center;" |1 |- | [[India]]|| style="text-align:center;" |1 |- | [[Iran]]|| style="text-align:center;" |1 |- | [[Japan]]|| style="text-align:center;" |28 |- | [[Malaysia]]|| style="text-align:center;" |1 |- | [[Philippines]]|| style="text-align:center;" |16 |- | [[South Korea]]|| style="text-align:center;" |105 * |- | [[Sweden]]|| style="text-align:center;" |1 |- | [[Taiwan]]|| style="text-align:center;" |23 |- | [[Thailand]]|| style="text-align:center;" |5 |- | [[United Kingdom]]|| style="text-align:center;" |2 |- | [[United States]]|| style="text-align:center;" |62 |- | [[Vietnam]]|| style="text-align:center;" |1 |- class="sortbottom" !'''Total (16 Nationalities)'''|| style="text-align:center;" |'''269''' |- class="sortbottom" | colspan="3" | <nowiki>*</nowiki> 76 passengers, 23 active crew and 6 [[Deadheading (employee)|deadheading]] crew<ref name="ICAO93" /><br> |} [[File:Larry McDonald.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Congressman Larry McDonald]] The aircraft flying as Korean Air Lines Flight 007 departed from Gate 15 of [[John F. Kennedy International Airport]], New York City, on August 31, 1983, at 00:25 [[Eastern Time Zone|EDT]] (04:25 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]), bound for [[Kimpo International Airport]] in [[Gangseo District, Seoul]], 35 minutes behind its scheduled departure time of 23:50 [[Eastern Time Zone|EDT]], August 30 (03:50 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]], August 31). The flight was carrying 246 passengers and 23 crew members.<ref name="crew" group="note">3 cockpit crew, 20 cabin crew and 6 [[Deadheading (employee)|deadheading]] crew (ICAO 93, Sect. 1.3, p. 6)</ref><ref name="Johnson-6">Johnson, p. 6</ref> After refuelling at [[Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport|Anchorage International Airport]] in [[Anchorage, Alaska]], the aircraft departed for Seoul at 04:00 [[Alaska Time Zone|AHDT]] (13:00 UTC) on August 31, 1983. This leg of the journey was piloted by Captain Chun Byung-in (45), First Officer Son Dong-hui (47), and Flight Engineer Kim Eui-dong (31).<ref name="KAL 007 passenger list">{{cite web |url=http://www.rescue007.org/passengers.htm |title=KAL 007 passenger list}}</ref><ref name="Doerner-5">Doerner, p. 5</ref> Captain Chun had a total of 10,627 flight hours, including 6,618 hours in the 747. First Officer Son had a total of 8,917 flight hours, including 3,411 hours in the 747. Flight Engineer Kim had a total of 4,012 flight hours, including 2,614 hours on the 747.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/06/world/korean-plane-s-pilot-was-air-force-veteran.html |title=KOREAN PLANE'S PILOT WAS AIR FORCE VETERAN |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=September 6, 1983 |website=New York Times}}</ref> Korean Air Lines Flight 007 had an unusually high ratio of crew to passengers, as six [[Deadheading (employee)|deadheading crew]] were on board.<ref name="Airways">Allardyce and Gollin, August 2007, p. 51</ref> Twelve passengers occupied the upper deck, first class, while in business class almost all of the 24 seats were taken; in economy class, approximately 80 seats were empty. There were 22 children under the age of 12 years aboard. One hundred thirty passengers planned to connect to other destinations such as Tokyo, [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]], and [[Taipei]].<ref name="Doerner-4">Doerner, p. 4</ref> [[United States Congress]]man [[Larry McDonald]] from Georgia, who at the time was also the second president of the conservative [[John Birch Society]], was on the flight. The Soviets contended former U.S. president [[Richard Nixon]] was to have been seated next to Larry McDonald on KAL 007 but that the CIA warned him not to go, according to the ''[[New York Post]]'' and [[Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union]] (TASS); according to former Nixon aide Franklin R. Gannon Nixon had received the offer but decided against it himself.<ref>{{cite news |title=Soviets Say Nixon Had Been Booked on Flight 007 |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000404580011-0.pdf |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=September 25, 1983 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115085159/https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000404580011-0.pdf |access-date=January 18, 2023 |archive-date=November 15, 2020}}</ref>
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