Air disaster

1994 British Army Lynx shootdown

20 Mar 1994 · 54.08° N, 6.61° W

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When
20 Mar 1994
Kind
Air disaster
Coordinates
54.08° N, 6.61° W
Description
1994 action of the Provisional IRA
Injured
4

1994 British Army Lynx shootdown

IRA helicopter shootdown in Northern Ireland

On 19 March 1994, a British Army Lynx helicopter was shot down by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Northern Ireland. A unit of the IRA's South Armagh Brigade fired a heavy improvised mortar at the British Army base in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. The mortar round hit and shot down the helicopter, serial number ZD275, while it was hovering over the helipad.

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