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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.
Two on the ground were also killed. It remains the deadliest commercial aircraft accident in the United States, and the second-deadliest incident involving commercial aircraft in the United States, after the 9/11 attacks. December 28, 1978 10 24 179 United Airlines Flight 173: Portland: Oregon: McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61
This accident happened exactly two months after a U-2 was shot down and as a result increased tensions created by that incident. 6 July Goodyear ZPG-3W, BuNo 144242, lost hull pressure and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off New Jersey, eighteen of twenty-one crew were lost.
The incident happened near the town of Greenup, about halfway between St. Louis and Indianapolis. Police said several vehicles are involved, and eastbound lanes of the road could be closed for ...
The U-2 airplane incident Archived 25 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine, according to the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian; 1962 Russia frees US spy plane pilot; The U-2 Spy Plane Incident – slideshow by Life magazine; Eisenhower's speech addressing the U-2 incident "The CIA and the U-2 Program" (1998).
A similar incident happened over the holidays in Hawaii. A body was found in the wheel well of a United Airlines flight from Chicago when the plane landed in Maui.
There were 104 passengers and five crew members on board at the time of the incident. The flight has since been rescheduled to take off at 12:30 p.m. local time. Houston firefighters helped ...
U-2 pilot takes a selfie with both the U-2 shadow and the balloon while surveilling the Chinese asset over the US during the 2023 Chinese balloon incident. In 2020, the U-2 made history as the first military aircraft to integrate Artificial Intelligence on a mission. [164] The AI program, code-named ARTUμ, was developed by the U-2 Federal ...