page_title: Buffalo 461
section_title: Aftermath and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Buffalo 461 / Aftermath and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Monument to the Buffalo 9 in Buffalo Park, Calgary.
context_page_description: Buffalo 461 was a Canadian military de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo assigned to the second United Nations Emergency Force force in Syria in support of United Nations Security Council Resolution 340. Assigned to a peacekeeping force, Buffalo 461 was shot down by three Syrian missiles on August 9, 1974 killing all nine passengers and crew.
  The loss of Buffalo 461 remains the largest single-incident loss of life in the history of Canadian peacekeeping operations.
context_section_description: The Canadian Department of National Defence launched a board of Inquiry to investigate the loss of Buffalo 461. The board was led by LCol J.A. McCann who was unable to determine if the missile attack was accidental or done intentionally to put pressure on the United Nations to curtail Israeli flights over Syrian airspace.
  The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum has undertaken a project to rebuild an ex-Sudanese Air Force DHC-5D to represent Buffalo 461 as a tribute to those lost on Buffalo 461 and all Canadian peacekeepers. 
  In 1993 British Columbia established August 9 as Peacekeepers' Day and this was recognized nationally in 2008 by the Canadian government. 
  A fragment of the original aircraft is on display at the Canadian War Museum as a memorial to the lost crew members and passengers, who have become known as the Buffalo Nine, and a memorial has also been erected at Buffalo Park in Calgary, Alberta.
caption: Monument to the "Buffalo Nine" in Calgary.
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