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Corporate Air Services HPF821 was a transport aircraft delivering weapons via clandestine airdrop to the Nicaraguan Contras which was shot down over Nicaragua on 5 October 1986 by a surface-to-air missile. Two U.S. pilots, Wallace "Buzz" Sawyer and William Cooper, and the Nicaraguan nationalist radio operator Freddy Vilches died when the Fairchild C-123 Provider was shot down by a Sandinista soldier using an SA-7 shoulder-launched missile, while Eugene Hasenfus, the U.S. "kicker" responsible for pushing the cargo out of the aircraft, survived by parachuting to safety. The aircraft was carrying "60 collapsible AK-47 rifles, 50,000 AK-47 rifle cartridges, several dozen RPG-7 grenade launchers and 150 pairs of jungle boots".

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rdfs:label	Corporate Air Services HPF821 (en)
rdfs:comment	Corporate Air Services HPF821 was a transport aircraft delivering weapons via clandestine airdrop to the Nicaraguan Contras which was shot down over Nicaragua on 5 October 1986 by a surface-to-air missile. Two U.S. pilots, Wallace "Buzz" Sawyer and William Cooper, and the Nicaraguan nationalist radio operator Freddy Vilches died when the Fairchild C-123 Provider was shot down by a Sandinista soldier using an SA-7 shoulder-launched missile, while Eugene Hasenfus, the U.S. "kicker" responsible for pushing the cargo out of the aircraft, survived by parachuting to safety. The aircraft was carrying "60 collapsible AK-47 rifles, 50,000 AK-47 rifle cartridges, several dozen RPG-7 grenade launchers and 150 pairs of jungle boots". (en)
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dcterms:subject	20th-century aircraft shootdown incidents Airliner shootdown incidents 1986 in Nicaragua Aviation accidents and incidents in 1986 Iran–Contra affair Nicaragua–United States relations October 1986 events in North America
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Wikipage revision ID	1063828066 (xsd:integer)
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	San Carlos, Río San Juan Sandinista 20th-century aircraft shootdown incidents Airliner shootdown incidents United States Congress Vietnam War Costa Rica Chris Dodd El Salvador Félix Rodríguez (soldier) 1986 in Nicaragua 1981 Armenia mid-air collision Aviation accidents and incidents in 1986 Iran–Contra affair Nicaragua–United States relations October 1986 events in North America Luis Posada Carriles 9K32 Strela-2 AK-47 Air America (airline) 1989 Jamba Hercules crash Airdrop Daniel Ortega Fairchild C-123 Provider Southern Air Transport Boland Amendment Clandestine operation Ilopango International Airport Nicaragua RPG-7 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Surface-to-air missile Eugene Hasenfus Iran-Contra affair SA-7 U.S. Coast Guard Nicaraguan Contras
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caption	A Fairchild C-123 owned by the U.S. Coast Guard, photographed in 1971 (en)
crew	4 (xsd:integer)
date	1986-10-05 (xsd:date)
fatalities	3 (xsd:integer)
injuries	0 (xsd:integer)
operator	Corporate Air Services, owned by Southern Air Transport (en)
origin	El Salvador Ilopango International Airport
passengers	0 (xsd:integer)
site	near San Carlos, Río San Juan, Nicaragua (en)
summary	Shoot-down (en)
destination	El Salvador Ilopango International Airport
aircraft type	Fairchild C-123 Provider
occurrence type	Incident (en)
survivors	1 (xsd:integer)
tail number	HPF821 , ex-USAF 54-679 (en)
has abstract	Corporate Air Services HPF821 was a transport aircraft delivering weapons via clandestine airdrop to the Nicaraguan Contras which was shot down over Nicaragua on 5 October 1986 by a surface-to-air missile. Two U.S. pilots, Wallace "Buzz" Sawyer and William Cooper, and the Nicaraguan nationalist radio operator Freddy Vilches died when the Fairchild C-123 Provider was shot down by a Sandinista soldier using an SA-7 shoulder-launched missile, while Eugene Hasenfus, the U.S. "kicker" responsible for pushing the cargo out of the aircraft, survived by parachuting to safety. The aircraft was carrying "60 collapsible AK-47 rifles, 50,000 AK-47 rifle cartridges, several dozen RPG-7 grenade launchers and 150 pairs of jungle boots". Hasenfus was captured within 24 hours. He was convicted of terrorism-related charges, sentenced to 30 years in prison, and pardoned a month later to return to his family in Wisconsin; at the request of Senator Chris Dodd and others, he was released in exchange for Sandinista soldiers captured by the Contras. Hasenfus's comments about CIA backing for the flights were initially denied by the U.S. government, but investigations of what became known as the Iran-Contra affair showed that the U.S. had organized this and other flights, and had funded the cargo using illegal weapons sales to Iran. (en)
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