The Armageddon Flight

With the news this week of the co-pilot of a passenger plane stabbing the pilot and then attempting to crash the plane, it's time to reconsider what happened on another flight. This is not something that I have just come up with. I have thought about this before.

In 1983, relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union were very tense. Ronald Reagan made a speech against the Soviet Union, referring to it as the "Evil Empire". The Soviets installed a system of satellites to watch for nuclear missile launches in the U.S. Ronald Reagan had announced an elaborate system of space-based defenses against Soviet nuclear missiles, the Strategic Defense Initiative. NATO announced military exercises called "Able Archer" that would simulate a nuclear conflict. This greatly alarmed the Soviets and they suspected that it was really preparation for an actual attack.

Right in the middle of all of this tension, Korean Airlines flight 007 departed New York City for Seoul with a refueling stop in Anchorage. It left Anchorage at 4 AM local time. Because the plane would be flying westward, along with the sun, the long flight would be in darkness.

The plane was subtly off course from the beginning. Nearly three hours after takeoff the plane entered restricted Soviet airspace over the Kamchatka Peninsula. Soviet military jets intercepted the plane after they got no response to communication efforts. The Soviet jets flew alongside the Boeing 747 where they would have been clearly visible from the cockpit.

The plane left Soviet airspace but, continuing on it's course, reentered it over Sakhalin Island. This was also the site of sensitive military installations. I have read reports that the Soviets continually tried to contact the plane, offering it an emergency landing, as well as contacting Seoul Airport. They claimed to have gotten no response at all from the plane and it continued through forbidden airspace.

It should be noted that a Boeing 747 is intended as a passenger plane but can be modified for military use. A couple of years before this, Iran had modified 747s to use as aerial refueling planes and an aerial control center. These were used in the long-range air raid on the Iraqi airfield known as H3, during the Iran-Iraq War.

It should also be noted that the Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, had suffered devastating kidney failure. He entered hospital not long before Flight 007. He would spend the rest of his term, and life, in hospital and would be dead in a few months. The resulting lack of leadership from the top made the tense situation even more dangerous because it was now more likely that a military officer might take it upon himself to take action.

So the plane flying into restricted Soviet military airspace could not possibly have come at a worse time. The plane suddenly began to increase it's altitude, which the Soviet planes flying alongside it considered as an attempt to evade them. The decision was made that there was no choice but to shoot the plane down with missiles.

The plane crashed into the Sea of Japan after it had left the airspace over Sakhalin Island. No one on the plane survived. 269 people were killed. Tapes of the cockpit that were recovered reveal no indication at all of the flight crew realizing that they were off course or of the Soviet jets alongside them. The crew couldn't have been incapacitated because they had requested permission for the increase in altitude from Japanese controllers. Ronald Reagan was disgusted at the shooting down of a passenger plane, and made sure that the world knew it. But it didn't quite lead to Armageddon.

The purposefully crashing of a passenger plane wasn't something that we thought about back in 1983. But there have been a number of cases in recent years, including the attempt this week. How can anyone seriously believe that this straying into restricted Soviet airspace, at the worst possible time, was an accident? It looks like an attempt to bring about Armageddon by someone on that plane, not necessarily the pilot.

This map is from the Wikipedia article "Korean Airlines Flight 007". It shows the intended flight path, the actual flight path, and where the plane was shot down.

The plane must have spent at least an hour over the Kamchatka Peninsula. How could whoever was in control of the plane not know that they were over land when they were supposed to be over the sea? Even aside from whatever radar and navigation tools the plane was equipped with, the Kamchatka Peninsula is mountainous. The moon's phase was last quarter, meaning that there was a half moon. The mountains, illuminated by the moon, would be very visible from the cockpit of the plane.

The plane passed near Petropavlovsk, the major city of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The lights of the city would have been very visible at night to the crew of the plane who would have known that they were supposed to be over the sea, as it would be hours before they would be flying over Japan.

The plane had actually left Soviet airspace when it crashed, as it flew from some distance after being hit by missiles from a Soviet plane. There was no distress call or SOS from the plane. If the plane had continued on it's course it would have entered Soviet airspace a third time, passing the city of Vladivostok.

It is impossible that this deviation in the plane's route was an accident. Considering that it came at the absolutely worst possible time in superpower relations, I consider it as an attempt to initiate Armageddon although not necessarily by the pilot of the plane.

Because of the islands and peninsulas in the Soviet far east, the plane was on a route that would enter Soviet airspace three separate times, all near sensitive military installations. This would increase the chance that the plane would be shot down and I am sure that it was planned this way. The first entry, over the Kamchatka Peninsula, didn't get the plane shot down. It was the second entry, over Sakhalin Island, that got it shot down.

The plane couldn't fly directly into restricted Soviet airspace because that would make it appear that the Soviets were justified in shooting it down. It had to appear to have been an honest mistake that would absolutely not be cause to kill 269 people.

But why would a Korean plane be involved in bringing about Armageddon? Here is something interesting although I cannot prove that it had anything to do with it.

Sun Myung Moon was a Korean religious leader who founded the Unification Church. He claimed that Jesus appeared to him when he was a teenager and anointed him to complete Jesus' mission that was interrupted by the Crucifixion. Many people have claimed to be the Messiah or the Second Coming of Jesus in recent times, as foretold by Jesus for the Last Days. Sun Myung Moon was a global figure and by far the highest profile person to make these claims.

The theology of the Unification Church is detailed in the document "Divine Principle". The Unification Church is known for it's mass weddings as a way to bring about the redeemed world, including one great event in Madison Square Garden. The movement was very anti-Communist, with Communism representing the Forces of Evil on earth. Sun Myung Moon was into many business ventures because capitalism was righteous.

What is so interesting is that Sun Myung Moon served a prison sentence in the U.S. for tax evasion. This event with Flight 007 happened not only at the height of superpower tension but also after he had been convicted, but before he had been sent to prison. Maybe the beginning of Armageddon would reveal him to be the Messiah.

(Facts verified with Wikipedia articles "Sun Myung Moon" and "Unification Church").

I use the term "Armageddon", instead of "Apocalypse", because Armageddon is a great war at the end of the world while Apocalypse has religious connotations, and we don't know for sure the motivation of whoever was guiding the plane.

For more about deliberate attempts to initiate the Apocalypse see "The Far-Reaching Legacy Of Charles Manson", June 2025.