Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-21

Echoes of a Forgotten War: The 1969 Shootdown of Deep Sea 129 and the Legacy of U.S.-North Korea Hostilities

On April 15, 1969, a United States Navy EC-121M reconnaissance aircraft codenamed “Deep Sea 129” was shot out of the sky by a North Korean MiG-21. The unarmed aircraft, flying a pre-planned surveillance route over international waters east of the...