and the soviet jets were scrambled to go check it out. they fired a heat-seeking missile at that korean airlines jet. the jet got hit by the missile, but it was not destroyed. the pilots of that plane emergency landed the aircraft on a frozen lake. two of the passengers onboard were killed by the missile. about a dozen of them were injured. the rest survived. that was 1978. five years later, the soviets did it again and they did it again to another korean airlines jet. although this time in 1983, it was a direct hit and the jet was destroyed and everybody onboard was killed. this was a much more famous incident, the one that happened in 1983. korean airlines flight 007. that flight, again, had strayed into the soviet union, but honestly, that flight was only seconds away from international airspace when a soviet fighter jet hit it with two missiles.