1994 British Army Lynx shootdown

On 19 March 1994, a British Army Lynx helicopter was shot down by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland. A unit of the IRA's South Armagh Brigade fired a heavy improvised mortar at the British Army base in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. The mortar round hit and shot down the helicopter, serial number ZD275, while it was hovering over the helipad. Three British soldiers and a Royal Ulster Constabulary member were wounded.

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