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Date: | Wednesday 18 February 1953 |
Time: | |
Type: | MiG-15bis |
Owner/operator: | People's Liberation Army Air Force - PLAAF |
Registration: | |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North-east of Pyongyang -
North Korea
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:PLAAF unknown Regiment. Two MiGs engaged F-84 Thunderjets of the 49th FBG attacking a Tank training school located north-east of Pyongyang. With heavy cloud base at 2000 ft the MiGs hit the Thunderjet flown by Lt Eugene Duffy but one of the MiG, too low, hit the ground directly with the belly and exploded.
18-feb-1953 USAF 49th FBG F-84E Lt Eugene Duffy MiG-15bis hit ground in pursuit PLAAF
Sources:
Air War Korea 1950-1953 / Robert Jackson, 1998
U.S. Air-to-Air Victories during the Korean War / ACIG Korean War Team -
http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_307.shtml Fighter Combat over Korea Part 2: Jet Aces (In: Wings of Fame Vol.2, 1996)
L.Krylov, Y.Tepsurkaev, I Seidov, R.Jackson, A.German, Gordon and Rigmant,B.Cull, D.Newton, W.Thompson, R.Dorr, X.Zhang, E.Duffy.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
11-Jan-2011 14:00 |
ASN archive |
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28-Aug-2012 14:33 |
Daniel Nole |
Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Source, Narrative] |