is this common knowledge? This is the first time I ever heard of this
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Korean Air Lines flight 085 lurched menacingly toward Canada. Its pilots had mistakenly broadcast codes to indicate a hijacking that led NORAD to scramble jets.
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KAL-085 turned out to be a false alarm. It landed peacefully in Whitehorse with no hijackers or terrorists aboard. A year later, prime minister Jean Chrétien told CBC he had been prepared to have NORAD shoot it down. “I said, ‘Yes, if you think they are terrorists, you call me again but be ready to shoot them down.’ So I authorized it in principle,” he said.
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