ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 279584
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Date: | Friday 21 June 1968 |
Time: | 08:45 |
Type: | McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom II (2x) |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force (USAF) |
Registration: | |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | ca 70 mi SE of Key Largo, FL -
United States of America
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Phase: | |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Homestead AFB, FL |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Two F-4D Phantom collided and crashed into the Florida Straits. Body of 1°Lt Terry W. Kaercher was recovered. Maj Robert P. Kohe and another airman were missing. Capt Walter E. Deacon II was rescued from a life raft.
Sources:
St. Petersburg Times 22 June 1968, p2B
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