British jet shot down over Gorazde
- Title
- British jet shot down over Gorazde
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 16 Apr 1994
- Year of production
- 1994
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- Duration
- 00:02:54
- Description
- Iain Ramage reports as UN ordered NATO air strikes on Gorazde in Bosia in poor weather resulted in a British jet being shot down. Lieutenant Nick Richardson bailed out of his aircraft and Lieutenant Oz Phillips got back to base. Comment from Terry Loughran, Commander of aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal; UK Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind; shadow Foreign Secretary Jack Cunningham; Liberal Democrat defence spokesman Menzies Campbell.
- Contributors
- Malcolm Rifkind; Jack Cunningham; Menzies Campbell; Iain Ramage; Terry Loughran
- Keywords
- Ethnic conflicts; UN; NATO; Peacekeeping; Aerial bombardment; Wars (events); Bosnia and Herzegovina; Gorazde; Yugoslav War (1991-1995); Airborne forces
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