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Date: | Monday 4 May 1953 |
Time: | |
Type: | Lockheed F-94B Starfire |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force (USAF) |
Registration: | 50-887 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Cho-do island -
North Korea
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RKSW |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:319th FIS. This interceptor was vectored in on an unidentified aircraft by the Cho-do island radar site. 50-887 closed to firing range, and called "Splash," which indicated they had actually downed the enemy aircraft. At that instant their fighter, 50-887, disappeared from Cho-do's radar, and it never was confirmed whether they dove into the water or had a mid-air collision with the wreckage of the aircraft they shot down. Pilot 2th Stanton G. Wilcox and radar operator 2th Lt Irwin L.Goldberg killed.
Sources:
AAIR
L.Krylov, Y.Tepsurkaev, I Seidov, R.Jackson, A.German, Gordon and Rigmant,B.Cull, D.Newton, W.Thompson, R.Dorr, X.Zhang,Korwald.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
08-Sep-2012 15:45 |
Daniel Nole |
Added |
25-Jun-2019 13:45 |
TB |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Source] |