Accident Lockheed TF-104G Starfighter 27+91,
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Date:Thursday 17 February 1972
Time:night
Type:Silhouette image of generic F104 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Lockheed TF-104G Starfighter
Owner/operator:WaSLw10 Luftwaffe
Registration: 27+91
MSN: 5921
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Cleverns-Sandel; Niedersachsen -   Germany
Phase: Approach
Nature:Military
Departure airport:Jever AB
Destination airport:Jever AB
Confidence Rating: Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources
Narrative:
Hit a church tower and some trees during night radar approach and crashed in a field; student OTLt Werner Böhm ejected safely but instructor OLt Gerd-Conrad Schwab was killed.

Sources:

http://www.916-starfighter.de/Large/2791.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20171029225354/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/aircraft_by_Type/GermanF104.htm
http://www.weltkriegsopfer.de/
Hamburger Abendblatt 18.2.1972

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
15-Jun-2011 09:57 TB Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
15-Jun-2011 10:01 TB Updated [Time, Source]
15-Jun-2011 13:15 TB Updated [Location, Source]
15-Jun-2011 13:17 TB Updated [Source]
01-Jan-2020 19:11 stehlik49 Updated [Operator, Operator]
12-Jan-2022 11:25 TigerTimon Updated [Location]

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