Corporate Air Services HPF821
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corporate-air-services-hpf821-190-1693168
title:
Corporate Air Services HPF821
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Corporate Air Services HPF821 was a transport aircraft delivering weapons via clandestine airdrop to the Nicaraguan Contras which was shot down over Nicaragua on 5 October 1986 by a surface-to-air missile. Two U.S. pilots, Wallace "Buzz" Sawyer and William Cooper, and the Nicaraguan nationalist radio operator Freddy Vilches died when the Fairchild C-123 Provider was shot down by a Sandinista soldier using an SA-7 shoulder-launched missile, while Eugene Hasenfus, the U.S. "kicker" responsible for
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1986 aircraft shootdown
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Air_Services_HPF821
date created:
2013-11-18T16:00:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T19:10:47Z
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