(OOC: This is based on several WIs about KAL 007.)
Howdy.
As everyone in the US knows, yesterday marks the 35th anniversary of the shootdown of KAL 007, a flight bound from JFK to Seoul via Anchorage. KAL 007 went down with 272 passengers and crew, including, most notably, Representatives Larry McDonald and Carroll Hubbard and Senators Steven Symms and Jesse Helms, who were flying to Seoul for the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the US-South Korea Mutual Defense Treaty. We don't need to rehash the US response and the subsequent Soviet counter-response, which was one of the factors that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union (for a look at a TL where it leads to a nuclear war, read the excellent TL Duck and Cover on this board).
So, WI KAL 007 isn't shot down?
Effects, anyone? (This certainly butterflies away Sam Ervin III's appointment to Helms' Senate seat, and the butterflies from that in North Carolina (and national) politics, which led to Harvey Gantt becoming the first African-American governor of North Carolina, for one thing.)
ObWI: Some combination of Helms, McDonald, Hubbard, and/or Symms aren't on board; they nearly missed the flight IOTL, so it's plausible...
Howdy.
As everyone in the US knows, yesterday marks the 35th anniversary of the shootdown of KAL 007, a flight bound from JFK to Seoul via Anchorage. KAL 007 went down with 272 passengers and crew, including, most notably, Representatives Larry McDonald and Carroll Hubbard and Senators Steven Symms and Jesse Helms, who were flying to Seoul for the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the US-South Korea Mutual Defense Treaty. We don't need to rehash the US response and the subsequent Soviet counter-response, which was one of the factors that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union (for a look at a TL where it leads to a nuclear war, read the excellent TL Duck and Cover on this board).
So, WI KAL 007 isn't shot down?
Effects, anyone? (This certainly butterflies away Sam Ervin III's appointment to Helms' Senate seat, and the butterflies from that in North Carolina (and national) politics, which led to Harvey Gantt becoming the first African-American governor of North Carolina, for one thing.)
ObWI: Some combination of Helms, McDonald, Hubbard, and/or Symms aren't on board; they nearly missed the flight IOTL, so it's plausible...