First_Albanian_air_force_incident_against_US_air_force

1957 United States Air Force incursion into Albanian airspace

1957 United States Air Force incursion into Albanian airspace

Cold War incident

The 1957 United States Air Force incursion into Albanian airspace (Albanian: Incidentet e para ajrore), was a Cold War incident.[1][4][3]

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On December 23, 1957, an American T-33 fighter jet violated Albanian airspace.[5] Two MiG-15 aircraft took off from Kuçova Air Base, piloted by Anastas Ngjela and Mahmut Hysa.[6][7]

The American fighter jet was surrounded and forced to land on the unfinished runway at Rinas Airport.[8][9] The plane was impounded and the American pilot Major Howard J. Curran was arrested.[10] Curran was released on January 11, 1958, while the plane was placed in the Gjirokastra castle museum.

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    "Koha kur avionët e Enverit luftonin me botën". Konica.al. November 24, 2019. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
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    van Gerven Oei 2015, p. 180.
  3. [3]
    ""Në vitin 1957, një pilot i NATO-s, me gradën e majorit, uli avionin e tij "T-33" në aeroportin e Rinasit"/ Dëshmia". Memorie.al (in Albanian). February 13, 2020. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
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    "A 'Dead' Flier Safe at Home". Life. September 4, 1970.
  5. [5]
    Spektër (in Albanian). 2001. p. 19.
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    van Gerven Oei, Vincent W. J. (2015). Workers Leaving the Studio. Looking Away from Socialist Realism. Punctum Books. ISBN 978-0-692-48041-0. OCLC 945783129.
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    zgjohushqiptar.info (January 25, 2019). "Koha kur avionët e Enverit luftonin me botën, ndersa sot avion shqiptarë …një ëndërr". Zgjohu Shqiptar. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
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    Regnery, Alfred S. (2019). Unlikely pilgrim : a journey into history and faith. New York, NY. ISBN 978-0-8253-0800-0. OCLC 1082977970.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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    Gibler, Douglas M. (2018). International Conflicts, 1816-2010: Militarized Interstate Dispute Narratives. Lanham, Maryland. ISBN 978-1-4422-7558-4. OCLC 1030585387.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. [10]
    Keesing's Contemporary Archives. University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign: Keesing's Limited. 1957. p. 15984.
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