Incident | |
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Date | 9 August 1974 |
Summary | Shot down by missiles |
Site | Ad Dimas, Syria |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo |
Operator | Canadian Forces |
Registration | 115461 |
Flight origin | Beirut International Airport, Lebanon |
Destination | Damascus, Syria |
Passengers | 4 |
Crew | 5 |
Fatalities | 9 |
Injuries | 0 |
Survivors | 0 |
Buffalo 461 was a Canadian military de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo assigned to the second United Nations Emergency Force force in Syria in support of United Nations Security Council Resolution 340. Assigned to a peacekeeping force, Buffalo 461 was shot down by three Syrian missiles[1] on August 9, 1974, killing all nine passengers and crew.[2]
The loss of Buffalo 461 remains the largest single-incident loss of life in the history of Canadian peacekeeping operations.[3]