During the KAL-007 shoot down incident a United States Air Force RC-135 happened to be operating in the area in order to monitor a Soviet missile test. Soviet command and control was complicated due to radar in the area being knocked out, and in the haste to make an interception the commander of Soviet Air Defense Forces in the sector said the plane could be shot down even over international airspace following positive identification as a military aircraft, while the head of the base that launched the intercepts went further to claim that no positive identification would be needed at all because it had already violated Soviet air space. What if the combination of knocked out radar systems, an aggressive command approach, and scenario fulfillment leads to the Soviet Air Defense Forces stumbling across the RC-135 and confusing it with KAL-007, shooting it down over international waters without cause?