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Date: | Friday 28 December 1951 |
Time: | |
Type: | North American F-86A-5-NA Sabre |
Owner/operator: | USAF |
Registration: | 49-1083 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 35 miles South of Antung -
North Korea
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RKSS |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:F-86A-5 49-1083 (4th FIW, 335th FIS)flown by 1th Lt Ward Starkweather.Shot down by MiG-15bis of the 196th IAP(324th IAD)flown by Kapt V.I. Alfeyev. 49-1083 crashed enroute to home base,Ward Starkweather KIA.
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 |
29-Apr-2011 17:33 |
Daniel Nole |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |