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Four Soviet MiGs down a USAF C-130 over Armenia; all seventeen aboard are lost
The plane had cleared Trabzon on a routine radio check minutes before it vanished off the Turkish border.
The C-130A-II had left Incirlik Airbase in Turkey that morning on a signals intelligence run, ordered to stay at least 100 miles from the Soviet frontier. Somewhere past Trabzon, its last confirmed radio contact, the aircraft crossed into Soviet airspace over Armenia. Four MiG-17s intercepted it 34 miles northwest of Yerevan and shot it down. All six flight crew and eleven intelligence specialists aboard were killed…
