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This incident is believed to be the first commercial passenger plane attacked by hostile forces. [1] On 24 August 1938 – during the Second Sino-Japanese War – the Kweilin, a DC-2 jointly operated by China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) and Pan American World Airways, carrying 18 passengers and crew, was forced down by Japanese aircraft in Chinese territory just north of Hong Kong. 15 ...
On 28 April 1960, a U.S. Lockheed U-2 C spy plane, Article 358, was ferried from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey to the US base at Peshawar airport by pilot Glen Dunaway. Fuel for the aircraft had been ferried to Peshawar the previous day in a US Air Force C-124 transport. A US Air Force C-130 followed, carrying the ground crew, mission pilot ...
On 28 January 1964, an unarmed T-39 Sabreliner aircraft of the United States Air Force (USAF) was shot down while on a training mission over Erfurt, East Germany, by a MiG-19 jet fighter of the Soviet Air Force. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The occupants of the aircraft were Lieutenant Colonel Gerald K. Hannaford, Captain Donald Grant Millard, and Captain John ...
Cold War. During the Cold War many nations including the Soviet Union and the United States were fiercely protective of their airspaces. Aircraft which entered an opposing nation's airspace were often shot down in air-to-air combat. The incidents produced a heightened sense of paranoia on both sides that resulted in the downing of civilian craft.
The Catalina affair ( Swedish: Catalinaaffären) was a military confrontation and Cold War -era diplomatic crisis in June 1952, in which Soviet Air Force fighter jets shot down two Swedish aircraft over international waters in the Baltic Sea . The first aircraft to be shot down was an unarmed Swedish Air Force Tp 79, a derivative of the Douglas ...
A A1-SM Furia drone was shot down by Russian forces in Chernihiv. [372] 30 March: A UJ-22 Airborne drone was reported shot down by Russian Pantsir S1 air defenses. [373] [374] 2 April: A Bayraktar TB2, serial number T187 was lost in Kherson. [375] [376] 12 April: A Tu-143 drone was shot down over Kharkiv by Russian forces. [377] 12 April
48 (38 in crash, 10 in massacre at the site) Survivors. 8. Air Rhodesia Flight 825 was a scheduled passenger flight that was shot down by the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) on 3 September 1978, during the Rhodesian Bush War. The aircraft involved, a Vickers Viscount named the Hunyani, was flying the last leg of Air Rhodesia 's ...
The Ukrainian air force shot down a Russian early warning and control plane that can spot targets up to 650 kilometers (400 miles) away and a key command center aircraft that relays information to ...