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Bookmark or Share- 1960 U-2 incident - WikipediaFlown by American pilot Francis Gary Powers, the aircraft had taken off from Peshawar, Pakistan, and crashed near Sverdlovsk (present-day Yekaterinburg), after being hit by a surface-to-air missile. Powers parachuted to the ground and was captured.
- Francis Gary Powers | Biography, Death, & Facts | BritannicaFrancis Gary Powers, pilot who was captured on May 1, 1960, while on a reconnaissance flight deep inside the Soviet Union. The capture, known as the U-2 incident, resulted in the cancellation by the Soviet Union of a conference with the United States, Great Britain, and France.
- The Story of How the Soviets Shot Down US Pilot Francis Gary PowersThe pilot was Francis Gary Powers. A proven pilot, Powers participated in the American effort to counter the growing advantage that the Soviets enjoyed with their intelligence gathering networks.
- Francis Gary Powers - WikipediaFrancis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977) was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee. Powers is best known for his involvement in the 1960 U-2 incident, when he was shot down while flying a secret CIA spying mission over the Soviet Union.
- U-2 Incident | Summary, Significance, Timeline, & Facts | BritannicaU.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers was captured while on a reconnaissance flight. On May 7, 1960, Nikita S. Khrushchev revealed that Powers had parachuted to safety, was alive and well in Moscow, and had testified that he had taken off from Peshawar.
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