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Pilot error

Monday 30 August 1993 23:02 BST
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The head of a Russian commission investigating the shooting down of a South Korean passenger plane over the Soviet Union in 1983 said pilot error and not the Kremlin was to blame, Helen Womack reports from Moscow. At the time, Washington accused the Soviet air force of deliberately destroying a civilian plane, and Moscow said the aircraft was spying. But the commission reached similar conclusions to the International Civil Aviation Organisation.

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