What the records say
- When
- 27 Mar 1999
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 44.90° N, 19.87° E
- Description
- aviation accident
1999 F-117A shootdown
1999 aviation accident in Yugoslavia
On 27 March 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia amid the Kosovo War, a Yugoslav Army unit shot down a Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth ground attack aircraft of the United States Air Force (USAF) by firing an S-125 Neva/Pechora surface-to-air missile. It was the first ever shootdown of a stealth aircraft.
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