Crewmen and representatives from Eastport International prepare to deploy the unmanned submersible Deep Drone from the fleet tug USNS NARRAGANSETT (T-ATF 167) as the salvage ship USS CONSERVER (ARS 39) patrols nearby during the salvage operations for the downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KAL-007). The commercial jet was shot down by Soviet aircraft over Sakhalin Island on August 30, 1983 in the Sea of Japan. All 269 passengers and crewmen were killed
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Usns Narragansett (T-ATF 167)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 F. Barbante, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
17/09/1983
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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