Soviet Armed Forces

because you didn't have your navigation at that point

we know if we and we went straight ahead to handle the emergency so but the russians claimed 100 miles anyway so we were always penetrating what they considered their airspace um and they used to launch at us all the time we called you know did you have any reactions and we you only could judge your reactions if you saw a contrail but uh Anyway, now we're over Gotland Island, and I look off to the east towards the Soviet Union, Lithuania,

Latvia.

And I see two airplanes coming at us, two fighter aircraft, and I'm thinking, All right, this could be it.