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| Date: | Thursday 25 January 1962 |
| Time: | noon |
| Type: |  Lockheed F-104F Starfighter |
| Owner/operator: | WaSLw10 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | BB+366 |
| MSN: | 5053 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Oberbolheim -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Fliegerhorst Nörvenich |
Afterburner failure on takeoff in formation; aircraft descended, hit a tree, smashed through a drying hall and crashed on a street; student OLt Horst Völter (23) ejected successfully but instructor Hptm Lutz Tyrkowski (29) did not survive; one worker in the hall was minor injured by debris.
Sources:
http://www.916-starfighter.de/Large/bb366.htm
http://www.weltkriegsopfer.de/
Hamburger Abendblatt 26.1.1962
http://web.archive.org/web/20171029225354/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/aircraft_by_Type/GermanF104.htm
Passauer Neue Presse 26.1.1962, p2
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 02-Jun-2011 14:42 | TB | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 03-Jun-2011 01:23 | TB | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
| 03-Jun-2011 02:16 | TB | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
| 03-Jun-2011 02:18 | TB | Updated [Source, ] |
| 04-Jun-2011 02:09 | TB | Updated [Time, Location, Nature, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 13-Jul-2012 10:29 | TB | Updated [Time, Source, ] |
| 01-Jan-2020 07:54 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator, Operator, ] |
| 07-Oct-2024 13:29 | Werner Ehrenreich | Updated [Other fatalities, Location, ] |
| 31-May-2025 17:11 | TB | Updated [Location, Departure airport, ] |
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