ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 86241
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| Date: | Monday 16 February 1953 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Grumman F9F-5 Panther |
| Owner/operator: | United States Marine Corps (USMC) |
| Registration: | 126109 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Korea-13 Air Base -
 South Korea
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | K-13 Air Base |
| K-13 Air Base | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Attached to VMF-311, MAG-33. Hit by small arms fire and belly-landed at K-13 in flames, aircraft total loss.
US Marine Corps pilot and famous baseball player Ted Williams belly landed his burning Panther jet back on forward base after it was hit by AA fire in an air strike. This was Williams' first combat flight after his arrival in Korea about two weeks earlier.
Sources:
http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/korea/reports/air/
Denton Record-Chronical 16 February 1953, p8/(2) Gladewater Daily Mirror 11 August 1952, p7
not in AAIR
https://baseballhall.org/discover-more/stories/going-deep/ted-williams-heads-back-to-war
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 08-Jul-2022 13:04 | TB | Updated [Location, Country, Source, Narrative] |
| 08-Jul-2022 13:08 | TB | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 15-Sep-2022 15:56 | TB | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
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