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One crew member from US fighter jet downed in Iran has been rescued, US media report

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All six crew members of a US military refuelling aircraft were killed in an incident involving a second aircraft on March 12 in western Iraq, CentCom also said.

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Three U.S. Officers Missing in Iran

TEHERAN, Iran. April 22—An Iranian Air Force plane carrying three American officers and one Iranian was reported missing today on a mapping mission. Twenty planes began a widespread search of a vast desert area. Authorities said bad weather may have forced the single-engine plane to land somewhere between Kerman, the origin of the flight, and Teheran, the destination. The United States Embassy declined to release the names of the Americans.

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Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), April 24, 1958 — front page Enlarge →

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Incident – 1958 C-130 shootdown incident

On September 2, 1958, a Lockheed C-130A-II-LM, from the 7406th Support Squadron, departed Incirlik Airbase in Turkey on a reconnaissance mission along the Turkish-Soviet border. It was later intercepted and shot down by four Soviet MiG-17s 34 miles north-west of Yerevan. The six flight crew were confirmed dead when their remains were repatriated to the United States, but the 11 intelligence-gathering personnel on board have never been acknowledged by Soviet/Russian authorities.

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1960 U-2 incident

On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane, having taken off from Peshawar in Pakistan, was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces in Sverdlovsk, Russia. As a result of the spy plane incident and the attempted cover-up, the Four Power Paris Summit was not completed — Khrushchev left the summit one day after it had begun, and prospects for an easing of Cold War tensions were dashed.

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