The Recife disaster is the name generally attributed to a military incident that occured on October 9, 1985 during the NATO assault on the region surrounding the city of Recife in northeastern Brazil. Part of Operation Blue Dawn, which outlined the full operational movement of Colombian forces from Teresina and Fortaleza east and southeast towards Recife, the incident involved a miscommunication with a fighter-bomber squadron of United States Navy F-14 Tomcats which flew into a highly concentrated area of anti-aircraft defenses, with all fourteen planes being shot down, most by surface-to-air missile batteries and three by Brazilian S-17 interceptor fighters stationed at Camarajibe Air base outside of the city.