Incident | |
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Date | 21 June 1978 |
Summary | Two helicopters shot down |
Site | Inside the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, after straying from the Iranian border |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Cargo helicopter |
Aircraft name | Boeing CH-47 Chinook |
Fatalities | 8 |
Survivors | 4 |
The 1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown was an incident on 21 June 1978, when four Boeing CH-47 Chinooks of the Imperial Iranian Air Force strayed into Soviet airspace during a training mission, with the result being that two of them were shot down by the PVO.[1][2][3]