Lo que dicen los registros
- Cuándo
- 23 jun 1988
- Tipo
- Desastre aéreo
- Coordenadas
- 54.13° N, 6.52° W
- Description
- helicopter downed by the Provisional IRA over Northern Ireland
1988 British Army Lynx shootdown
IRA helicopter shootdown in Northern Ireland
On 23 June 1988, an Army Air Corps (AAC) Westland Lynx, serial number XZ664, was shot down by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) near Aughanduff Mountain, County Armagh, in Northern Ireland. A unit of the IRA's South Armagh Brigade fired at the British Army helicopter using automatic rifles and heavy machine guns.
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