The 1992 European Community Monitor Mission helicopter downing was an incident that occurred on 7 January 1992, during the Croatian War of Independence in which a European Community Monitor Mission (ECMM) helicopter carrying five European Community (EC) observers was downed by a Yugoslav Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, in the air space above the village of Podrute, near Novi Marof, Croatia. Four Italian officers and a French officer were killed. Another ECMM helicopter flying in formation with the attacked helicopter crash-landed and its crew of four survived. Following the incident, condemned by the United Nations Security Council and the EC, Yugoslav authorities suspended the head of the air force, and the defence minister, General Veljko Kadijević resigned his post. The events follow