The U-2 was tracked by military radar for long enough to determine it's course , altitude and speed and then some careful calculations and luck allowed it to be shot down by surface to air missles.
Show down the Soviet Union??? Or shot down IN the Soviet Union? Are you asking about Gary Francis Powers?
That was a U-2, flown by Gary Powers. He was shot down over the Soviet Union on 1 May, 1960.
The US had a spy plane called the U-2 that was shot down over the Soviet Union.
Gary Powers was the pilot who was shot down.
Francis Gary Powers
...do you mean shot down over the former Soviet Union? That pilot's name was FrancisGary Powers.
It was an American U-2 spy plane that was shot down over the Soviet Union. It was The U-2 crysis of 1960.
The U2 spy plane with Gary Powers at the controls
Korean Air Lines.
Soviet Union indeed shot down a US U-2 surveillance plane on 1st May, 1960. The plane was flying from a base in Northern Pakistan and was on a mission over Soviet Union near Ural region when it was shot down by a SAM (SA-2). The pilot Gary Powers was taken prisoner after he safely bailed out.
The U2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down by a Soviet surface-to-air missile on May 1, 1960, while flying over Soviet airspace. The incident heightened tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Powers was captured and later exchanged for a Soviet spy, Rudolf Abel, in a high-profile prisoner swap.
The countRy is Russia(Soviet Union). In 1983 a Russian military jet shot down a Korean Airlines commercial airliner.