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1960 U-2 incident
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1960 U-2 incident
The
1960 U-2 incident
happened during the
Cold War
on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of
Dwight D. Eisenhower
and the premiership of
Nikita Khrushchev
, when a United States
U-2
spy plane
was shot down from
Soviet
airspace
. The aircraft, flown by
Central Intelligence Agency
pilot
Francis Gary Powers
, was performing
aerial reconnaissance
when it was hit by an
S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Guideline)
surface-to-air missile
and crashed in
Sverdlovsk
and Powers was captured.
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