Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Dokar shugaban kasa ba ta hana jiragen U-2 a waje da gabashin Turai ba. A watan Mayun 1956, Turkiyya ta amince da tura kungiyar B a Incirlik Air Base, kusa da Adana, Turkiyya. Kafin sabon rukunin ya kasance a shirye, duk da haka, Rukunin A a ƙarshen watan Agusta ya yi amfani da Adana a matsayin tushen mai don ɗaukar hotunan Bahar Rum. Jirgin ya gano shaidar sojojin Birtaniya da yawa a Malta da Cyprus yayin da Burtaniya ke shirin shiga tsakani a Suez
Ka yi haƙuri. Amurka ta ba da wasu daga cikin hotunan ga gwamnatin Birtaniya. Yayin da rikicin ya yi tsanani, an canza aikin daga tushen bincike na dabarun, wanda ya ba da fifiko ga inganci fiye da sauri (mai yin fim ɗin ya sarrafa shi, sannan aka bincika a Washington), zuwa ƙungiyar bincike ta dabara wacce ta ba da bincike kai tsaye. Sashin Binciken Hotuna ya kafa dakin gwaje-gwaje a Wiesbaden; kamar yadda Detachment B ya karɓi daga A kuma ya tashi sama da manufofin da suka kasance masu zaman kansu, rahotannin Wiesbaden na sauri sun taimaka wa gwamnatin Amurka ta yi hasashen harin Isra'ila-Birtaniya-Faransa a kan Masar kwana uku kafin ya fara a ranar 29 ga Oktoba. A ranar 1 ga Nuwamba jirgin sama ya tashi a kan sansanin sojin saman Masar a Almaza sau biyu, da tazarar minti 10; a tsakanin Ingila da Faransa sun kai hari kan sansanin, kuma sakamakon da ake gani na harin a cikin "binciken minti 10" ya burge Eisenhower. Farawa a ranar 5 ga Nuwamba, jiragen sama a kan Siriya sun nuna cewa Soviets ba su aika da jiragen sama a can ba duk da barazanar da suka yi wa Birtaniya, Faransa da Isra'ila, wanda ya haifar da damuwa ga Amurka.