‘My dad was shot down over the Soviet Union’ – what happens when a US spy plane gets caught?
In May 1960 an American U-2 spy plane flew over Russian missile sites. The US thought it was beyond the reach of Soviet air defences. They were wrong. Sixty-five years later, what's changed?
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Francis Gary Powers pictured three hours after his return to the US. Pic: AP
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A U-2c aircraft at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford
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Francis Gary Powers speaks to senators in Washington DC in 1962. Pic: AP
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Gary Powers, son of pilot Francis Gary Powers
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Francis Gary Powers in front of a U-2 spy plane. Pic: AP
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Gary Powers speaks to Sky's Michael Drummond
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