Forest Yeltzen News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

We were not in control of what they were doing,permission. they were not under our roll and have to face the consequence of what they've done. >> but it was a terrible accident and russian-made weapon. >> the biggest difference between now and 1983 is in 1983, of course, it did go up a chain of hierarchical command inside the military and this was not a russian military as a hierarchical organization. the russians have been involved on the ground. we think they're probably people recently retired from the russian military going over as contractors, probably paid by russia but not going over as...

Did turn over the data. they turned over the tapes. and they didn't -- interesting, they didn't turn them over to the south koreans. they instead turned over the real data, real tapes to the international civil aviation organization. that's the u.n.'s investigative group, best practices group for civil aviation. and that agency reviewed the tapes from the shoot-down of that airliner nine years earlier and then what they ended up doing was publishing the harrowing transcript of what happened inside the plane as it was rapidly descending after it had been shot by a soviet fighter jet fired missi...

The black boxes. he turned them over at the big spectacular press veevent, but they were empty. nothing on the recorders. handed over the boxes but not the tapes, actual data. oops. it was very embarrassing for everybody involved. russia ultimately had to admit they knew the tapes had been removed from the black boxes when boris yeltsin held the s-- at least some russian officials, though, did know. did know. and they admitted it. and, of course, it was hugely embarrassing. it opened up all these old wounds, right, when boris yeltsin was trying to change the way russia looked to the world, try...

Responsible nation in the community of nations. and as part of that really big effort, as part of the effort to bring russia into the international community to try to normalize russian relations with the rest of the world, boris yeltsin decided to make one specific dramatic gesture, decided to do something the rest of the world had been waiting for for almost a decade but honestly most people thought it would never happen. before the soviet union fell apart back in 1983, september 1st, 1983, a korean passenger jet carrying 269 people had strayed into soviet territory and the soviets, of cours...