1960 U-2 incident spy aircraft

When

1 May 1960

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

56.73° N, 60.99° E

Description

aviation 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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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The U-2 incident: Several Soviet surface-to-air missiles shoot down an American Lockheed U-2 spy plane over Russia”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “美蘇關係降到冷戰以來的低點：一架美國洛克希德U-2偵察機在蘇聯領空遭擊落，機師法蘭西斯·加里·鮑爾斯被俘。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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