Date:	Wednesday 23 October 1963
Time:	night
Type:	Canadair CF-104 Starfighter
Owner/operator:	Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)
Registration:	12793
MSN:	683A-1093
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Siltzheim -   France
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	3 Wing – RCAF Station Zweibrücken, Germany
Destination airport:	3 Wing – RCAF Station Zweibrücken, Germany

Narrative:
2 October 1962 - Taken on RCAF strength. The 427 (ST/A) Squadron pilot had completed a low-level night-time TACAN penetration mission and was on letdown to Zweibrücken when the aircraft struck the ground near Siltzheim, France, and was destroyed. The pilot did not eject and was killed in the crash. Possible cause was a misread altimeter.

Canadian Armed Forces DFS "Flight Comment" 1966-3 MAY.JUNE (Pg 18)
Starfighter, Retrospective of Canadian CF-104 1961-1986, David L. Bashow. ISBN 0-919195-12-1 (Pg 26)
http://rcafassociation.ca/heritage/post-war-data/post-war-casualties-air-miscellaneous-units/
http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/4514455?Henry%20Bruce%20Webb%20Sheasby

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
26-Aug-2011 01:51	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, ]
17-Jan-2013 15:23	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Date, Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
17-Jan-2013 15:24	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, ]
04-Feb-2013 10:34	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, ]
05-Jun-2013 07:55	Nepa	Updated [Operator, ]
23-Apr-2016 06:22	yukonjack	Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]