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1953 Avro Lincoln shootdown incident information


1953 Avro Lincoln shootdown incident
Part of the Cold War
Avro Lincoln aircraft similar to the one shot down over East Germany
TypeAircraft Shot-down
Location
west of Boizenburg, East Germany

53°22′40″N 10°39′40″E / 53.37778°N 10.66111°E / 53.37778; 10.66111
ObjectiveIntercept RAF Avro Lincoln aircraft
Date12 March 1953
Executed bySoviet Air Force
Casualties7 British airmen killed

The 1953 Avro Lincoln shootdown incident was the shooting down of a British Avro Lincoln four-engined bomber which had intruded into East German airspace during a training mission on 12 March 1953. While the aircraft was flying on the Hamburg-Berlin air corridor over East Germany it was shot down by a MiG 15 Soviet fighter.

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