U-2+Crisis+-+Allen

​​​​ **THE U-2 CRISIS**

=**BACKGROUND:**= **The U-2 crisis happened on may 1, 1960 during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.**
 * The united states denied the planes purpose and mission at first. **
 * The incident was an embarassment to the united states. **
 * on april 28th, a U.S. lockhead U-2C spy plane was ferried from its base in Incirlik. **
 * The U-2 spy planes were flying over 70,000 feet. **
 * The U.S.A. used them to conduct surveillance of the U.S.S.R. during the cold war, and was still using them in the 1991 gulf war. **
 * Due to the U-2's extreme operating altitude, the soviet uniontrys to attempt to intercept the plane using fighter aircraft but it failed. **
 * The U-2's coarse was out of range of several of the nearest SAM, the U-2 was eventually hit and brought down near Degtyarsk Ural Region. **

= = =THE EVENT:=
 * On April 28, a U.S. lockhead u-2 C spy plane, Article 358, was ferried from incirlik in turkey to the US base at Peshawar airport by pilot Glen Dunaway **.
 * On April 30, the mission was delayed one day further because of bad weather over the Soviet Union. **

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 * fifteen days before the scheduled opening of an East–West summit conference in paris, Francis Gary Powers, flying Article 360, //56-6693// left the US base in Peshawar on a mission to overfly the Soviet Union.**
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