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The U-2 left Soviet air space and landed at an Iranian airstrip at Zahedan. It was clear that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had successfully performed an extraordinarily dangerous but productive intelligence operation. The next flight of the U-2 spy plane from Peshawar airport was planned for late April. [4]
The U-2 has also been used for electronic sensor research, satellite calibration, scientific research, and communications purposes. The U-2 is one of a handful of aircraft types to have served the USAF for over 50 years, along with the Boeing B-52, Boeing KC-135, Lockheed C-130 and Lockheed C-5. The newest models (TR-1, U-2R, U-2S) entered ...
Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977) was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee. Powers is best known for his involvement in the 1960 U-2 incident, when he was shot down while flying a secret CIA spying mission over the Soviet Union.
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
Pilot error; see John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash: Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy: United States 1999 Wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. Piper Saratoga: Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States Pilot error; see John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash: Tony Bettenhausen Jr. United States 2000 CART racing driver/owner Beechcraft Baron
Townspeople who heard the weather-plane crash are foiled at rescue attempts by searing heat. Nine charred bodies were pulled from the wreckage. The plane, on a routine weather mission, had been aloft from Yokota Air Base for about an hour. [32] [33] B-50D-105-BO, 48-122, converted to WB-50D. Crashed with 56th WRS. [34] 22 September
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
Rudolf Anderson Jr. (September 15, 1927 – October 27, 1962) was an American Air Force major and pilot. He was the first recipient of the Air Force Cross, the U.S. military's and Air Force's second-highest award and decoration for valor.