As a subordinate to commander of the Far Eastern Military District Air Defense Forces , General Valeri Kamensky , and as commander of Sokol Air Base on Sakhalin Island , Korunkov received the command from Kamensky to shoot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 carrying 260 people , including U.S. congressman Larry McDonald , while it was over the international waters of Okhotsk , having exited Kamchatkan air space
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
Anatoly Kornukov