Flight 007: The Secrets of a State Crime | DOCU-FICTION

At the height of the Cold War, during the American Labor Day weekend, the world was shaken by an event of unprecedented gravity: a Korean Airlines Boeing 747 carrying 269 passengers, including 66 Americans and a prominent senator, mysteriously disappeared from radar over Soviet airspace. In the shadows of Japanese military listening posts and the hushed offices of the White House, a frantic race against time began to separate fact from fiction. While the American government and its Secretary of State immediately capitalized on the tragedy, labeling it a "deliberate act of barbarism" to justify the deployment of cruise missiles in Europe, military intelligence analysts uncovered a very different reality. Between the interference of an American Cobra B spy plane in the same area and the stubborn silence of a Korean civilian pilot trapped by a tragic flight path error to conserve fuel, the official investigation clashes with the demands of propaganda. This relentless geopolitical thriller unveils the inner workings of a state apparatus where historical truth is sacrificed on the altar of military strategy and information warfare. Directors: Misha Lobko and Arnaud Hamelin Did you know? It was precisely following this disaster, and to prevent such a navigational error from recurring until 1983, that President Ronald Reagan signed an executive order opening up military GPS (Global Positioning System) technology to the civilian sector and airliners worldwide.