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| Date: | Friday 17 March 1950 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  MiG-17 |
| Owner/operator: | Soviet Air Force |
| Registration: | - |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Russia -
 Russia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
MiG-17 crashed during a test flight as the result of a technical malfunction. The Testpilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (05.03.1948), Lt Col Ivan Timofeevich Ivashchenko was killed.
Sources:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Иващенко,_Иван_Тимофеевич
https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/14-january-1950/
http://allaces.ru/p/people.php?id=20685
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Feb-2017 18:23 | gerard57 | Added |
| 07-Feb-2020 08:51 | JF | Updated [Narrative, ] |
| 07-Feb-2020 08:52 | JF | Updated [Source, ] |
| 29-Jan-2022 16:56 | JF | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Source, Narrative, ] |
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