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Saturday, May 01, 2010

Downed spyplane still a mystery, half a century later





It has been 50 years since U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union, marking a turning point in the Cold War.

A U2 spy plane was on a mission to film Soviet military bases when the aircraft was hit by a Soviet surface-to-air missile. Half a century on, the incident is still full of mystery.

The CIA called it their “invulnerable spyplane.”

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