U2 SPY PLANE

• On May 1, 1960, U.S. pilot* Francis Gary Powers was allegedly shot down while flying an Air Force Lockheed U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance airplane, affectionately known as the “Dragon Lady.”

U2 SPY PLANE

• An international diplomatic crisis erupted in May 1960 when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers 1929-77

U2 SPY PLANE INCIDENT

• The 1960 U-2 incident happened during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace.

SOVIET SHOT DOWN AMERICAN PLANE

U2 SPY PLANE SHOT DOWN