Banja Luka incident

Banja Luka incident
Part of the Bosnian War and Operation Deny Flight
Artist's depiction of the incident
Date 28 February 1994 Location Southwest of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina 44°32′8.54″N 16°34′57.42″E / 44.5357056°N 16.5826167°E / 44.5357056; 16.5826167 Result NATO victory
Belligerents
Republika Srpska	NATO  United States
Strength
6 J-21 Jastrebs 2 J-22 Oraos	4+ F-16s
Casualties and losses
4 aircraft shot down[1][a] 1 aircraft crashed[3][4] 3 pilots killed 1 wounded	None

The Banja Luka incident, on 28 February 1994, was an incident in which six Republika Srpska Air Force J-21 Jastreb single-seat light attack jets were engaged, and four of them shot down, by NATO warplanes from the United States Air Force. U.S. F-16 fighters southwest of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina successfully engaged and destroyed several Bosnian Serb warplanes which had attacked a Bosnian factory, while suffering no casualties of their own. It marked the first active combat action, air-to-air or otherwise, in NATO's history.^[5]

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