The captain who shot down the aircraft, has been awarded a medal for exceptionally meritorious conduct.

上校开枪击落了一架飞机，并因这一“非比寻常的立功”而被授予勋章。

youdao

One of the U-2 surveillance flights that Eisenhower ordered ended in spectacular disaster on May Day 1960, when the Soviets shot down the aircraft and captured the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, alive.

艾森豪维尔亲自命令的一架美军高空侦察机U2在1960年五一劳动节这天被苏联击落，飞行员加里·鲍尔斯遭到生擒。

youdao

The aircraft swooped down over the buildings.

飞机俯冲到那些建筑物上方。

《牛津词典》

She said analysis of the device at East Midlands found it was "viable" and "could have succeeded in bringing down the aircraft".

BBC: Air freight from Yemen and Somalia banned

And one of the things that really cost us getting to the battle on time was we have to break down the aircraft.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: V-22: A discussion on the way ahead

The ground control stations send their commands to Reaper via a fibre-optic link to a satellite relay station in Europe, which bounces them into space and back down to the aircraft.

BBC: Military's crucial 'eye in the sky'