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    Moneron Island, (Russian: Монерон, Japanese: 海馬島, romanized: Kaibato, トド島, Todojima, Ainu: Todomoshiri) is a small island off Sakhalin Island. It is a...
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    warning shots. The Korean airliner eventually crashed into the sea near Moneron Island west of Sakhalin in the Sea of Japan, killing all 269 passengers and...
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    spokesman following the shootdown of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island in September 1983. He was dismissed as Chief of the General Staff on...
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    Sakhalin (redirect from Sakhalin Island)
    point of the island. Sakhalin has two smaller islands associated with it, Moneron Island and Ush Island. Moneron, the only land mass in the Tatar strait, 7...
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    interceptor just west of Sakhalin Island. The plane came down on the waters off the strait's only land mass, Moneron Island. An intensive naval search by...
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    007 incident in 1983, a South Korean Boeing 747 was fired upon near Moneron Island, after it veered into restricted Soviet airspace, by a Su-15TM based...
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    from the waters near the islands of Sakhalin and Moneron by the West Sakhalin current flowing south between the two islands (at 1 mile per hour (1.6 km/h))...
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  • suffered control problems, causing the plane to spiral into the sea near Moneron Island. The event was denounced by the US Reagan Administration as a deliberate...
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    to the Sukhoi Su-15 that shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island in September 1983. At that time, base commander was General Anatoly...
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    Soviet Union Air Force Su-15 Flagon pilot Major Gennadi Osipovich near Moneron Island when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board...
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