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Date: | Monday 23 October 1967 |
Time: | |
Type: | Canadair Sabre V (F-86F) |
Owner/operator: | Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) |
Registration: | 23083 |
MSN: | 873 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | nr Mount Carleton, NB -
Canada
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Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RCAF Chatham, NB |
Destination airport: | RCAF Chatham, NB |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Group Captain William R. Cole, Commanding Officer of RCAF Station Chatham, New Brunswick, was conducting a routine low level cross country navigation training flight in Sabre 23083. It is suspected that he encountered a layer of low stratus cloud with poor visibility below, and impacted a heavily wooded area near Mount Carleton. He was the last pilot to die in a Sabre in Canada.
Sources:
The Canadair Sabre; Larry Milberry (Pg 363)
Canadian Military Aircraft Serials
Sabre Legacy Project - Home | Facebook
http://rcafassociation.ca/uploads/airforce/2015/03/SPAADS-Document-ver-2.pdf Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
28-Mar-2018 20:29 |
TB |
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21-Oct-2021 05:35 |
Cosmo |
Updated [Date, Total fatalities, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |