Crossword clues for shootdown
Wiktionary
n. The shoot down of an aircraft, satellite, etc.
Wikipedia
Shootdown is a 1988 film starring Angela Lansbury. Leonard Hill served as the executive producer.
In the film, Nan Moore (Lansbury) loses her son in the Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shoot down. She wishes to discover the truth about her son's death.
The film's production was delayed due to controversies surrounding the KAL007 incident.
Shootdown may refer to:
- Shootdown, of an aircraft
- Shootdown (film), 1988 film
- Shoot Down, 2006 documentary
Usage examples of "shootdown".
I later received word from Castro, indirectly of course, that the shootdown was a mistake.
President emphasized to us that he had authorized the shootdown of hijacked aircraft.
Ari Fleischer recorded that at 10:20, the President told him that he had authorized a shootdown of aircraft if necessary.
NORAD, General Ralph Eberhart, was en route to the NORAD operations center in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, when the shootdown order was communicated on the air threat conference call.
No one can recall the content of this conversation, but it was a brief call in which the subject of shootdown authority was not discussed.
Secretary Rumsfeld was not in the NMCC when the shootdown order was first conveyed.
For shootdown authority having already been conveyed, see DOD transcript,Air Threat Conference Call, Sept.
The lieutenant glanced at the bottom of the screen: elapsed time from shootdown, three minutes.
SA-2 missiles, Secretary of State Rusk had become so worried over the prospects of a shootdown over or near Cuba that he asked for a meeting of the key players in Operation Mongoose.
At the time, it was considered essential to map all the Tall King radars to prevent the shootdown of American bombers in the event of war.
We were instructed to listen for any references to the shootdown by any of the Chinese ground stations that we listened in on.
At one point Nowicki listened to his first midair shootdown as an Egyptian Sukhoi-7 aircraft was blasted from the sky.
The lead F-14 had flown back in front of him and turned to the left again, but the 747 was still descending in a straight line for Marseille, undeterred, as the request for immediate shootdown authority was once again flashed to the President.
Pax Astra as a sovereign nation, the Security Council had invoked the 1967 Space Treaty and unanimously approved the American resolution proposed that the embargo and shootdown constituted an act of aggression against the signatory nations.
Why, after two years, he wondered, would the circumstances of my shootdown be of interest to the North Vietnamese?