Editing Francis Gary Powers (section)

===Shot down===
[[File:U2 Powers Senate model.jpg|thumb|right|Wooden U-2 model used by Powers when he testified to the Senate Committee. The wings and tail are detached to demonstrate the aircraft's breakup.]]
Powers was shot down by an [[S-75 Dvina]] (SA-2 "Guideline") surface-to-air missile<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/s75.htm |title=S-75 |publisher=Astronautix.com |access-date=August 31, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005194237/http://astronautix.com/lvs/s75.htm |archive-date=October 5, 2012 }}</ref> over [[Yekaterinburg|Sverdlovsk]]. A total of 14 Dvinas were launched,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Polmar |first1=Norman |title=Spyplane: The U-2 History Declassified |date=2001 |publisher=Zenith Press |location=Osceola, WI |isbn=0760309574 |page=137}}</ref> one of which hit a [[MiG-19]] jet fighter which was sent to intercept the U-2 but could not reach a high enough altitude. Its pilot, [[Sergei Safronov (fighter pilot)|Sergei Safronov]], ejected but died of his injuries. Another Soviet aircraft, a newly manufactured [[Su-9]] on a transit flight, also attempted to intercept Powers' U-2. The unarmed Su-9 was directed to ram the U-2 but missed because of the large differences in speed.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-12-31 |title=U-2 Incident {{!}} Summary, Significance, Timeline, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/U-2-Incident |access-date=2025-01-16 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>

As Powers flew near Kosulino in the Ural Region, three S-75 Dvinas were launched at his U-2, with the first one hitting the aircraft. "What was left of the plane began spinning, only upside down, the nose pointing upward toward the sky, the tail down toward the ground." According to his book ''Operation Overflight'', Powers delayed activating the camera's self-destruct mechanism until he made sure he could exit the cockpit before the charges detonated.  When ''g''-forces unexpectedly threw him from the spinning aircraft, he could no longer reach the destruct switches.  While descending under his parachute, Powers had time to scatter his escape map, and rid himself of part of his suicide device, a silver dollar coin suspended around his neck containing a poison-laced injection pin, though he kept the poison pin.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dobbs |first1=Michael |title=Gary Powers Kept a Secret Diary With Him After He Was Captured by the Soviets |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/gary-powers-secret-diary-soviet-capture-180956939/#yilEojcaVQvIj9qc.99 |website=Smithsonian |language=en}}</ref> "Yet I was still hopeful of escape." He hit the ground hard, was immediately captured, and taken to [[Lubyanka Building|Lubyanka Prison]] in [[Moscow]].{{sfn|Powers|Gentry|2004|pp=61–63, 67–71, 76}} Powers did note a second chute after landing on the ground, "some distance away and very high, a lone red and white parachute".{{sfn|Rich |1994 |pp=159–60}}