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Scott Francis O'Grady (born October 12, 1965) is a former United States Air Force fighter pilot.On June 2, 1995, he was shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina by a 2K12 Kub (NATO designation SA-6 "Gainful") mobile SAM launcher and forced to eject from his F-16C into hostile territory.
The pilot, Scott O'Grady, ejected from the cockpit and was rescued six days later. The incident was the subject of the 2001 American film Behind Enemy Lines and a 2007 National Geographic documentary about the incident was aired on the channel as part of the series Situation Critical - Downed Pilot.
This incident was also reported by another F-117A pilot in 2020, but it remains classified and only some details were revealed. [15] [16] On 2 May 1999, the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade also shot down a USAF General Dynamics F-16CJ Fighting Falcon fighter piloted by future Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force David L. Goldfein ...
Zoltán Dani (Hungarian: Dani Zoltán; Romanian: Zoltan Dani; Serbian Cyrillic: Золтан Дани; 23 July 1956) is a Serbian Hungarian retired officer of the Yugoslav Army. Dani was the commander of the 3rd battery of the 250th Missile Brigade , which shot down a NATO F-117 Nighthawk near the village of Buđanovci on 27 March 1999, during ...
Behind Enemy Lines is a 2001 American action war film directed by John Moore in his directorial debut, and starring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman.The film tells the story of Lieutenant Chris Burnett, an American naval flight officer who is shot down over Bosnia and uncovers genocide during the Bosnian War.
May 2 – An F-16C Fighting Falcon (Serial Number 88-0550) was shot down by a Yugoslav SA-3 SAM. The aircraft crashed near Šabac, in a rural area of Serbia. The pilot, Lieutenant Colonel David L. Goldfein, future 4 Star General and Chief of Staff of the Air Force, survived and was subsequently rescued.
The Goražde air strikes was a series of NATO actions under the umbrella of operation Deny Fly to stop the Serbian offensive on Goražde, Bosnia.As a result, a Serbian command post was hit by American aircraft, while on the NATO side a British fighter was shot down and a French strike aircraft sustained damaged.
This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.An aircraft shootdown occurs when an aircraft is struck by a projectile launched or fired from another aircraft or from the ground (anti-aircraft warfare) which causes the targeted aircraft to lose its ability to continue flying normally, and then subsequently crashing into land or sea, often ...