Incident | |
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Date | September 2, 1958 |
Summary | Shot down by four Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 interceptors |
Site | near Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union 40°33′0″N 44°6′0″E / 40.55000°N 44.10000°E |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Lockheed C-130A-II-LM |
Operator | United States Air Force on behalf of the USAFSS |
Registration | 56-0528 |
Flight origin | Incirlik Air Base, Turkey |
Destination | Incirlik Air Base, Turkey |
Occupants | 17 |
Passengers | 11 mission crew from the United States Air Force Security Service (USAFSS) |
Crew | 6 |
Fatalities | 17 (presumed – only the six flight crew remains were repatriated at the time) |
Survivors | 0 |
The 1958 C-130 shootdown incident was the shooting down of an American Lockheed C-130A-II-LM reconnaissance aircraft which entered Soviet airspace during a mission in the region of Armenian SSR.