243.0 Mhz

Radio installation with sound

MP3player, motor

Radio station 8min 43 (looping)

2010

I collect famous pop songs in 1980-1983 from South Korea, Japan, USA and Soviet Union to make radio music stations.

The radio knob rotates automatically and tunes a dial, seems like an invisible hand controls the radio channel.

One point, the radio tunes stopping, you can listen the speech of President Ronald Reagan about Korean Air line 007 massacre on CNN and the real voice of the Soviet Union pilot when he shot Korean Air line 007 on 1983

240.Mhz installation view

Cockpit voice recorder 1983

General Anatoli Kornukov: commander of Sokol Air base on Sakhalin

Lt. Col. Gerasimenko : 41st fighter Regiment Command Post

Lt. Colonel Titovnin: Air Controller of Combat Control Center, Fighter Division, Far East Military District Air Defence Forces

Major Gennady Osipovich: the SU-15 interceptor pilot

Gen Kornukov to Gen. Kamenski: "Comrade General, Kamenski,

Good morning. I am reporting the situation. Target 60-65 is over Terpenie Bay tracking 240, 30 kilometers from the State Border. The fighter from Sokol is 6 kilometers away. Locked on, orders were given to arm weapons. The target is not responding to identify. He cannot identify it visually because it is still dark, but he is still locked on."

Gen. Kamenski: "We must find out, maybe it is some civilian craft or God knows who."

Kornukov: "What civilian? [It] has flown over Kamchatka! It [came] from the ocean without identification. I am giving the order to attack if it crosses the State border."

Titovnin: "Maistrenko Comrade Colonel, that is, Titovnin."

Col. Maistrenko "Yes".

Titovnin: "The commander has given orders that if the border is violated—destroy [the target]."

Maistrenko: "...May [be] a passenger [aircraft]. All necessary steps must be taken to identify it."

Titovnin: "Identification measures are being taken, but the pilot cannot see. It's dark. Even now it's still dark."

Maistrenko: "Well, okay. The task is correct. If there are no lights—it cannot be a passenger [aircraft]."

Osipovich: "Yes, I'm approaching the target. I'm going in closer."

Osipovich: "The target's (strobe) light is blinking. I have already approached the target to a distance of about 2 kilometers."

Titovnin: "805, open fire on target."

Kornukov: "Gerasimenko, cut the horseplay at the command post, what is that noise there? I repeat the combat task: fire missiles, fire on target 60-65."

Gerasimenko: "Wilco"

Kornukov: "Comply and get Tarasov here. Take control of the Mig-23 from Smirnykh, call sign 163, call sign 163, he is behind the target at the moment. Destroy the target!"

Gerasimenko: "Task received. Destroy target 60-65 with missile fire, accept control of fighter from Smirnykh"

Kornukov: "Carry out the task, destroy [it]!"

Gen. Kornukov: "Oh, how long does it take him to get into attack position, he is already getting out into neutral waters? Engage afterburner immediately. Bring in the MiG 23 as well... While you are wasting time it will fly right out."

Titovnin: "805, try to destroy the target with cannons."

Osipovich: "I am dropping back. Now I will try a rocket."

Titovnin: "Roger."

MiG 23 (163): "Twelve kilometers to the target. I see both [the Soviet interceptor piloted by Osipovich and KAL 007]."

Titovnin: "805, approach target and destroy target."

Osipovich: "Roger, I am in lock-on."

Titovnin: "805, are you closing on the target?"

Osipovich: "I am closing on the target, am in lock-on. Distance to target is 8 kilometers."

Titovnin: "Afterburner. AFTERBURNER, 805!"

Osipovich: "I have already switched it on."

Titovnin: "Launch!"

Osipovich: "Z.G." (Fuel panel light)

Osipovich: "I have executed the launch."

Kornukov: "Well, what do you hear there?"

Gerasimenko: "He has launched"

Kornukov: "I did not understand"

Gerasimenko: "He has launched"

Kornukov: "He has launched, follow the target, follow the target, withdraw yours from the attack and bring the MiG-23 in there."

Osipovich: "The target is destroyed."

Time Magazine, 1983