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Cockpit: [Unintelligible]
Public Address: “Put out your cigarette. This is an emergency descent.”
Captain: “Is it power compression?”
Flight Engineer: “Is that right?”
Public Address: “Put out your cigarette, this is an emergency descent.”
Flight Engineer: “All of both.”
Osipovich: “Fuel remainder 1,600”
Captain: “Is that right?”
Public Address: “Put the mask over your nose and mouth and adjust the headband.”
Co-Pilot: “Tokyo radio Korean Air 007.”
Lt. Col Novoseltski: “Well, what is happening, what is the matter, who guided him in, he locked on, why didn’t he shoot it down?”[14]
Public Address: “Put the mask over your nose and mouth and adjust the headband.”
Osipovich: “I am executing. What is the distance to the airfield?”
Tokyo radio: “Korean Air 007, Tokyo.”
Accentuated breathing during the transmission indicated that an oxygen mask was being worn
Co-Pilot: “Roger, Korean Air 007…ah, we are experiencing…”
Osipovich: “Roger”
Public Address: “Put the mask over your nose and mouth and adjust the headband.”
Flight Engineer: “All compression.”
Captain: “Rapid decompression. Descend to one zero thousand.”
Public Address: “Attention emergency descent.”
Flight Engineer: “Now…we have to set this.”
Tokyo radio: “Korean Air 007, radio check on one zero zero four eight.”
Public Address: “Attention emergency descent.”
Flight Engineer: “Speed.”
Flight Engineer: “Stand by. Stand by. Stand by. Stand by. Set.”
Public Address: “Put out your cigarette. This is an emergency descent.”
MiG-23: “I’m executing left to a heading of 180. (Altitude) 7,500 metres (24,600 ft)”
Public Address: “Put out your cigarette. This is an emergency descent.”
Public Address: “Put out your cigarette this is an emergency descent.”
Public Address: “Put the mask over your nose and mouth and adjust the headband.”
Public Address: “Put the mask over your nose and mouth and adjust…”
MiG-23: “Heading 150, Roger.”
Kornukov: “Did Osipovich see the missiles explode? Hello?”
Gerasimenko: “He fired two missiles.”
Kornukov: “Ask him, ask him yourself, get on channel three and ask Osipovich did he or did he not see the explosions?”
Gerasimenko: “Right away”
Gerasimenko” “805, did you launch one missile or both?”
Osipovich: “I launched both”