P122 BEEBFAX 122 Thu 31 Dec --:--/--                                  * 1 September - All 269 people on  board the Korean Airlines flight KAL  007 are presumed dead after it was  shot down by USSR fighter jet as it  had strayed into Soviet airspace over  Sakhalin island. The Boeing 747 was  flying from the USA to Seoul via  Anchorage.  * 1 September - Ian MacGregor becomes  chairman of the National Coal Board.     100-Contents 101-Headlines   Next       Prev       Home        End