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9. The 1954 Cathay Pacific Douglas DC-4 shootdown was an incident on 23 July 1954, when a Cathay Pacific Airways C-54 Skymaster [4] airliner was shot down by People's Liberation Army Air Force fighter aircraft. The event occurred off the coast of Hainan Island, where the plane was en route from Bangkok to Hong Kong, killing 10 of 19 passengers ...
4 August 1961. An Iranian Airways DC-4 (EP-ADK) was attacked by an unidentified aircraft after flying over Russian territory, damaging the number one engine nacelle and wing structure. The engine later caught fire and was shut down. The number four engine was also shut down due to low fuel.
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 ...
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 ...
Ukraine says it downed a Russian Su-24 fighter plane over the Black Sea near Snake Island as the aircraft was on its way to attack Odesa region.. Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Ukraine’s “sky ...
April 30, 2024 at 10:05 AM. MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian officials said on Tuesday that Ukraine had attacked Crimea with U.S.-produced Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) in an attempt to pierce ...
The air force said it shot down 87 cruise missiles and 27 drones of a total 158 aerial "targets" fired by Russia. Defence Minister Rustem Umerov said it was the "most massive air attack of this ...
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