Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: amdcad!mjt@mcnc.org (Michael Tighe) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: U2 Shootdowns Message-ID: <10579@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 25 Oct 89 04:04:29 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 25 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Michael Tighe dep@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (David Pugh) writes: >Was the U-2 really shot down? I've heard an alternate theory that the >U-2 had either a mechanical problem/structural failure/etc. Arguments >for the later theory included: Don't forget that the pilot of that U2, Gary Powers survived. Although he is now deceased, I do not believe he ever claimed mechanical trouble caused his aircraft to crash. > o No intelligence on the Soviets having a missle capable of > downing a U-2. What makes you say this? > o No other downed U-2s (the US stopped overflights over the > USSR, but Soviet clients could have probably gotten the > SAM and had lots of opportunity to use it). *Many* U2s have been shot down. They are just not publicized. Another U2 victim was Major Rudolph Andersen, who was shot down in over Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He did not survive.