What the records say
- When
- 15 Apr 1969
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 41.20° N, 131.80° E
1969 EC-121 shootdown incident
Downing of a U.S. Navy aircraft by North Korea over the Sea of Japan
On 15 April 1969, a United States Navy Lockheed EC-121M Warning Star of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron One (VQ-1) on a reconnaissance mission was shot down by a North Korean MiG-21 aircraft over the Sea of Japan. The plane crashed 90 nautical miles (167 km) off the North Korean coast and all 31 Americans on board were killed, which constitutes the largest single loss of U.S. aircrew during the Cold War era.
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