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Date: | Tuesday 5 December 1950 |
Time: | |
Type: | Lockheed F-80C-10-LO Shooting Star |
Owner/operator: | USAF |
Registration: | 49-478 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | K-2 Taegu AFB -
South Korea
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RKTN |
Destination airport: | RKTN |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:F-80C 49-478 (49th FBG)Escorting RF-80A, hit by MiG-15bis of the 29th GIAP(50th IAD)near Chongju, shot up (200/250 holes), landed at K-2 Taegu AFB. Written off.Victory credited to Maj Yuri Keleinikov.A second F-80 was claimed by the 29th GIAP but is a overclaim.
Sources:
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/1949.html L.Krylov, Y.Tepsurkaev, I Seidov, A.German, Gordon and Rigmant,B.Cull, D.Newton, W.Thompson,X.Zhang,Korwald,N.Sutyagin,Y. Pepelyayev,S.Kramarenko.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Apr-2011 08:13 |
Daniel Nole |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |