What Caused The 1987 Korean Air Flight 858 Explosion? | One Day That Changed Asia | Full Episode

In 1987, Korean Air Flight 858 exploded in mid-air en route to Seoul, killing all 115 passengers on board. Pyongyang was immediately blamed for the attack. But is there more than meets the eye?
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[@cekkihoti1654]

Rest In Peace to all 115 passengers and hope their families will find peace,from Kosovo 🇽🇰

[@freesmileyfacesde1045]

kosovo is serbia

[@Hammy651]

@@freesmileyfacesde1045 Pshhhh..I new that!.

[@K.K.K_1865]

@@freesmileyfacesde1045No it’s Albanian

[@matthewhahn1132]

Yep

[@brichardsfourty]

God bless all those 115 passengers It’s so sad any loss of life makes me sad

[@nickinportland]

How is this story so unknown? Only 5k views on this doc and just a few other videos mentioning it. Bizarre.

[@default123default2]

Yeah I just heard of it from a podcast

[@Steveinthailand]

The whole story is bizarre. Besides the "confession" of Kim Hyon-hui by SK´s Secret Service, there is no evidence that KAL 858 was ever even bombed.

[@tkstnk6920]

It may be unknown, but it still is a well-known incident here in Japan.

[@MargaritaMagdalena]

@@Steveinthailand Pictures of plane debris? Weeping relatives?

[@Steveinthailand]

No debris was ever found.

[@scootermom1791]

I wish they had included this on the Mayday Air Disaster series. I don't even remember hearing about it on the news, but that was probably my fault. I was a busy teen and didn't pay much attention to the news then.

[@StephenLuke]

Certainly! If the TV series Mayday: Air Disaster were to make a documentary about the bombing of Korean Air Flight 858, a suitable title could be "Unmasking Terror". This title captures the essence of the incident while highlighting the investigative nature of the documentary.

[@scootermom1791]

@@StephenLuke I agree!

[@StephenLuke]

@@scootermom1791 It’s a shame they only found a few pieces of the wreckage. 😞

[@teresasheanaburglererhonas3771]

We need more of this

[@robbinmizushima5907]

Surprised that this accident wasn’t on Air Crash Investigation. Sadly, during the late 1900s Korean Air had a poor safety record and this accident even though wasn’t caused by pilot error or mechanical error still caused a dent in the airline at that time.

[@SuperKevin6464]

It wasnt an accident

[@MikeDucis]

This is sad

[@vincentm.7462]

How was it not noticed in the overhead between flights

[@FoxNatureFilms]

read the book. you will know that she has become a christian and she emigrated to south korea.

[@MargaritaMagdalena]

I read it

[@Steveinthailand]

@@MargaritaMagdalena But remember, there is zero evidence that she was even North Korean or born in the DPRK. The book idea was the government's to promote anti-North Korean sentiment (as admitted by the book's ghost writer in this documentary)

[@tomasalaxa3489]

@@Steveinthailand You should stop talking bullshit and move to North Korea and enjoy ´´wonderful´´ life there!

[@xxo8888]

@69 It's prob a North Korean combing through the entire comment section w that fake name and pic

[@Etendard1708]

@@Steveinthailand she claimed she was not born in NK, but whatever it is.. she was indoctrinated by and worked for North Korean government.

[@user-jn9gd4lv5x]

개같은...115명이 공중에서 낙하해서 뒤졌는데 가해자는 어떻게 매년 연금받고 잘살수있지?

[@NewLayer2Bell]

And guess what, she still draws breath to this day. Unbeliveble🤬😡🫤

[@StephenLuke]

RIP To the passengers and crew of Korean Air Flight 858

[@mashis7299]

Gave tour of the city?? Wow nice

[@yukisuperstylish]

They treat murders like kings what a joke

[@tulayamalavenapi4028]

How was the absence of the two bombers not detected by the airline personnel on board? No air hostess, no reboarding ground crew, nobody noticed two empty seats. That's so weird. A major oversight like that, had it been observed by anybody, could have led to opening the overhead compartment, and finding suspicious luggage. Were there more accomplices?

[@rjscott6116]

The actual bomber supposedly stayed on the plane, which if you think about it even a little, gives off a 🐟 like oder.

[@madeinjamaica7025]

My guess? This was the 80s, not many people suspecting bombings. It's nowadays that people are suspicious of everything they see on a plane and an airport.

[@ALLDAYKPOP]

Before 9/11, airline security was pretty lax. It wasn't until Lockerbie that the rules were put in place about bags boarded only with a passenger.

[@ChaklitTea]

This was before Pan Am 103

[@KathyHussey063]

Because until the last 30 to 35 years had happened, no one paid much attention to bags left on a stopover like that , hence why terrorists learned they could take advantage of that oversight in security on planes at airports worldwide. Several horrible bombings contributed to investigators of those flights figuring out some methods they used to get past security protocols. Only after studying how bombings (or plane wrecks) happened, can the experts warn against the next new thing they've found to exploit to kill people. I doubt they ever checked for bags left on planes at stopovers before the late 80's, just like, before 9/11/2001 most Americans would've never thought terrorists could have hijacked 4 passenger jets, in mid air, all freshly loaded to the brim with fuel, within 2 hours with box cutters.... or that they'd ask for nothing, no threats, no demands, no hostage taking for days...no, they would immediately point 2 of them at the largest skyscrapers in the whole country & the other 2 right for the White House & the Pentagon intending to inflict maximum destruction & death on George Bush Jr. and Sr. & their country, killing all 19 of themselves in the process !! Who'd ever have believed that our air controllers in N.Y. or D.C. (who control that air space day & night & are the ones who might NEED TO ALERT US & the Air Force if anyone invaded us by air) did not already have an automatic dedicated red phone line straight to the Air Force's Admiral or General or to the head of the Pentagon in case any one of those air controllers saw the need to dispatch F5's to chase & shoot down any enemy planes (or one of our own that'd been hijacked or gone rogue and deadly) I'm sure they have all those things in place NOW, but they did not on 9/11 and it still amazes me how the supposedly brightest people we have in our military branches, who are tasked with protecting the citizens daily, overlooked such basic necessary items & obvious parts of planning in the event we were attacked, such as ; failing to have a number posted everywhere, or a direct phone line for air controllers to contact THE ONE OR ONES AUTHORIZED TO dispatch F5's, immediately, it took forever on 9/11 to get them in the air abd to find the right person to make the call & GIVE THE ORDER. And why no button in place for shutting a jet off mid air if needed? Why not carry some parachutes for passengers to put on, give them a chance for crying out loud ! ? They had NOTHING planned or tested or even thought about on 9/11 because of their hubris. Any 12 year old would've prepared better for everything that happened that day, especially when you consider that the high up ones had known about the threats ahead of time that Osama was going to hijack & use jets that way !

[@C4Dsoul]

why subtitle is completely wrong?!

[@tiadaid]

The video doesn't have subtitles. It has close captioning which is automated by AI so it may be incorrect.

[@davidrodrick2109]

Mayday: Air Crash Investigation should do an episode on this crash

[@EmeryE2]

What type of plane was it?

[@tiadaid]

A Boeing 707

[@EmeryE2]

Ok

[@chenyushu3648]

hi

[@A10N50]

hello there

[@gavinsmith9871]

@@A10N50 General Kenobi

[@DarkShadow10282]

@@gavinsmith9871I learned martial arts from Count Dooku

[@chrisamon6880]

I got to change the past and revised the timeline. It's for me to turn back time. I have to save lives.

[@deoglemnaco7025]

Don’t do it. You have no idea how you might change the future. I myself went back in time and saved a group of folks who were going to die in a boat accident. Well, I did. I also caused WW1 and everything else subsequently. Don’t do it

[@chrisamon6880]

@@deoglemnaco7025 You leave me out of this. I have to write a warning letter during the Asian Games in Seoul in early January 1986.

[@vincentm.7462]

Can I get the English version please?

[@Etendard1708]

Well, if you want to change timelines.. just make the two korea united under United Nations coalition forces.

[@matthewhahn1132]

All 115 were lost on perished In terrible explosion

[@TingweiLee-lb3if]

She put a bag??? in the plane they crash on the side

[@minseullee4867]

Reborn Rich brought me here

[@Just_Wilson123Official]

R.I.P all of the 115 passenegers and crew. [P.S Am I the only to realise that they recreated the crash with an airbus A300/A310 but it suppose to be a B707?]

[@avail1.]

CFR removed the new president of the John Birch Society....

[@salimahmed6407]

R I P All 115 People

[@plushi5834]

awe :c

[@Abnsdllnnlosnfd]

WTF is wrong with these people?

[@Etendard1708]

Victim of North Korean indoctrination

[@StephenLuke]

@@Etendard1708 Exactly!

[@mlfreak2471]

They r nuts!

[@michaelphillips3170]

if I wanted to read the whole story I buy a book just made it 9 min in

[@angelacatingub9855]

Where did u buy the book?

[@NastyWoman1979]

It's sad you can't pay attention and read subtitles. Our society and short attention span (caused by technology) hs caused people not to have patience and take the time to learn something. I worry fornour future.

[@NastyWoman1979]

​@@angelacatingub9855he's complaining about subtitles.

[@NastyWoman1979]

And the subtitles were done at the 11 min mark 😂😂😂😂 missed a great documentary

[@britbongtankie]

The CIA committed this terrorist attack to blame on socialist Korea and justify US imperialist aggression If the DPRK did this to scare people, they wouldn't have denied it. Killing southern Koreans also goes against their Korean patriot ideology. In addition, the "perpetrator" was not punished and the wreckage was somehow never found, almost like someone doesn't want it to be investigated...

[@marionicka9053]

Sejong the great will really despise the kim family

[@marionicka9053]

You're right about that.If he saw korea how it is today he would say to south korea I'm very proud of you south koreans and to north korea he would glare and spit in kim jong un's face and say you disgust me.

[@rjscott6116]

It was an inside job. That is all I can say before they kill me too. Power 2 the people🧐🤐😑😶🙈🙉🙊🖤

[@MargaritaMagdalena]

Why do you think so?

[@ShreyDoshi2]

​@@MargaritaMagdalena I'm pro north korea supporter If you wish to learn about north korea then go to the Google document I made in my youtube description.