The US had a spy plane called the U-2 that was shot down over the Soviet Union.
Both USA and Britain did this.
America used the U-2 at that time.
The United States was using the U-2 spy plane to gather intelligence about the Soviet Union. The incident occurred on May 1, 1960, when the plane was shot down over Soviet airspace, leading to heightened tensions and the cancellation of the planned East-West summit meeting between Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The countRy is Russia(Soviet Union). In 1983 a Russian military jet shot down a Korean Airlines commercial airliner.
The U-2 plane is a spy plane. In the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union one plane from the US crashed in the Soviet Union. This caused a great deal of tension seeing as how the American president of the time was denying the act of spying on Russia at the time.
That was a U-2, flown by Gary Powers. He was shot down over the Soviet Union on 1 May, 1960.
The United States used the Lockheed U2 and Convair PB4Y Privateer to gather intelligence about the Soviet Union and China before the advent of spy satellite technology.
Korean Air Lines.
The U2 spy plane with Gary Powers at the controls
1960
South Korea
Harold E. Stockton has written: 'Red beauty (Krasny Kraselek)' -- subject(s): Soviet Union, Soviet Union. Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily, Yak (Fighter plane)