A crewman aboard the U.S. Navy rescue and salvage ship USS <i>Conserver</i> (ARS-39) signals to the pilot of a Boeing-Vertol UH-46D <i>Sea Knight</i> (BuNo 152535) of Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 11 (HC-11) conducting vertical replenishment during salvage operations for downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KAL-007), on 17 September 1983. The commercial jet was shot down by Soviet aircraft over Sakhalin Island on 30 August 1983 in the Sea of Japan. All 269 passengers and crewmen were killed.
PH1 F. Barbante, U.S. Navy
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