1957 United States Air Force incursion into Albanian airspace
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The 1957 United States Air Force incursion into Albanian airspace (Albanian: Incidentet e para ajrore), was a Cold War incident.[1][4][3]
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2 MiG-15[1][2] | 1 Lockheed T-33[2] | ||||||
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None | 1 T-33 captured[3] |
On December 23, 1957, an American T-33 fighter jet violated Albanian airspace.[5] Two MiG-15 aircraft took off from Kuçova Air Base, piloted by Anastas Ngjela and Mahmut Hysa.[6][7]
The American fighter jet was surrounded and forced to land on the unfinished runway at Rinas Airport.[8][9] The plane was impounded and the American pilot Major Howard J. Curran was arrested.[10] Curran was released on January 11, 1958, while the plane was placed in the Gjirokastra castle museum.
References
edit- ^ a b "Koha kur avionët e Enverit luftonin me botën". Konica.al. November 24, 2019. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
- ^ a b van Gerven Oei 2015, p. 180.
- ^ a b ""Në vitin 1957, një pilot i NATO-s, me gradën e majorit, uli avionin e tij "T-33" në aeroportin e Rinasit"/ Dëshmia". Memorie.al (in Albanian). February 13, 2020. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
- ^ "A 'Dead' Flier Safe at Home". Life. September 4, 1970.
- ^ Spektër (in Albanian). 2001. p. 19.
- ^ van Gerven Oei, Vincent W. J. (2015). Workers Leaving the Studio. Looking Away from Socialist Realism. Punctum Books. ISBN 978-0-692-48041-0. OCLC 945783129.
- ^ zgjohushqiptar.info (January 25, 2019). "Koha kur avionët e Enverit luftonin me botën, ndersa sot avion shqiptarë …një ëndërr". Zgjohu Shqiptar. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
- ^ Regnery, Alfred S. (2019). Unlikely pilgrim : a journey into history and faith. New York, NY. ISBN 978-0-8253-0800-0. OCLC 1082977970.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Gibler, Douglas M. (2018). International Conflicts, 1816-2010: Militarized Interstate Dispute Narratives. Lanham, Maryland. ISBN 978-1-4422-7558-4. OCLC 1030585387.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Keesing's Contemporary Archives. University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign: Keesing's Limited. 1957. p. 15984.
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