ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 88612
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| Date: | Friday 28 July 1950 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Supermarine Seafire F Mk 47 |
| Owner/operator: | 800 Sqn FAA RN |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | East China Sea, off Korea -
 North Korea
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | HMS Triumph, at sea |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
A flight of Seafires was deployed from the aircraft carrier HMS Triumph to investigate possible enemy air activity near the fleet.
The unidentified aircraft turned out to be USAF B-29 Superfortresses and one of these mistakenly opened fire on the Seafires, taking them to be Yak 9s of the North Korean Air Force.
One of the Seafires was hit in the fuel tank and the pilot was forced to bale out.
The sea was too rough for the downed airman to be rescued by the carrier's Sea Otter ASR amphibian and he was picked up by the US destroyer Eversole.
A case of communication failure between allies.
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)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Triumph_%28R16%29
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 11-Jan-2011 14:00 | ASN archive | |
| 10-Mar-2013 04:01 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Mar-2013 04:03 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |
| 07-May-2013 09:01 | Nepa | Updated [Operator] |
| 13-Jun-2014 05:07 | angels one five | Updated [Operator] |
| 14-Nov-2018 16:05 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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