SINAI: WRECKAGE OF EGYPTIAN AIRCRAFT ISRAELIS CLAIM THEY BROUGHT DOWN WITH ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE.

Record ID: 399285

  • Title: SINAI: WRECKAGE OF EGYPTIAN AIRCRAFT ISRAELIS CLAIM THEY BROUGHT DOWN WITH ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE.
  • Date: 28th November 1969
  • Summary: JEEP AMONG WRECKAGE: SOLDIERS EXAMINE WRECKAGE OF WING: SOLDIER EXAMINES PARACHUTE: EXAMINING WRECKAGE: CANNON SHELLS: DATE SCRAWLED ON WRECKAGE: SOLDIER HOLDING ROCKET. Initials JB/VS/PW/BB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th December 1969 13:00
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  • Location: SINAI
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA6WJOSPGJOMWWIB3M01JN31RW4
  • Story Text: THE SHATTERED REMAINS OF AN AIRCRAFT LIE IN THE SINAI SANDS -- ISRAEL SAYS IT IS A SOVIET-MADE SUKHOI 7 FIGHTER AND CLAIMS IT IS THE 60TH EGYPTIAN PLANE BROUGHT DOWN BY HER FORCES SINCE THE SIX-DAY WAR IN 1967. THIS WAS ONE OF TWO EGYPTIAN PLANES ISRAEL CLAIMED SHOT DOWN OVER THE SUEZ CANAL ON THURSDAY (NOVEMBER 27).

    THURSDAY (NOVEMBER 27) WAS A DAY OF AERIAL ACTIVITY OVER THE CANAL CULMINATING IN A MIDNIGHT RAID BY ISRAELI PLANES ON EGYPTIAN MILITARY INSTALLATIONS.

    EARLIER THE ISRAELIS CLAIMED THAT EGYPTIAN FIGHTERS HAD PENETRATED ISRAELI TERRITORY SOON AFTER MID-DAY. THE ISRAELI'S CLAIMED THAT TWO EGYPTIAN AIRCRAFT WERE BROUGHT DOWN, ONE IN A DOG-FIGHT WITH ISRAELI FIGHTERS AND THE OTHER BY ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE.

    THEY SAID THE FIRST AIRCRAFT, A MIG 17 CRASHED DEEP INSIDE EGYPT AND THE PILOT WAS SEEN TO PARACHUTE DOWN. THE SECOND, A SUKHOI 7, CRASHED IN SINAI AND THE PILOT DIED IN THE WRECKAGE.
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