Was die Aufzeichnungen sagen
- Wann
- 1. Mai 1960
- Art
- Flugunglück
- Koordinaten
- 56.73° N, 60.99° E
- Description
- aviation incident
1960 U-2 incident
Cold War aircraft shootdown
On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane, having taken off from Peshawar in Pakistan, was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces in Sverdlovsk, Russia. It was conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance inside Soviet territory while being flown by American Central Intelligence Agency pilot Francis Gary Powers, as it was hit by a surface-to-air missile. Powers parachuted to the ground and was captured.
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