Date:	Wednesday 10 May 1972
Time:
Type:	McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II
Owner/operator:	VF-96, US Navy
Registration:	155800
MSN:	3074
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Gulf of Tonkin, off North Vetnam -   Vietnam
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	USS Constellation
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Damaged by SA-2 SAM explosion shortly after shooting down 3 MiG‑17s in air-to-air combat. Wingtip was blown off and hydraulics failed. Caught fire, lost control and spun into the sea into Gulf of Tonkin off North Vietnam

Both crew - LT Randy H Cunningham and LTJG Willie P Driscoll- ejected and were rescued by a Navy SH‑3 helicopter

http://web.archive.org/web/20170531092840/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/1972.htm#mar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:F-4J_VF-96_Showtime_100_in_flight.jpg
http://thephantomshrine.co.uk/Databases/f4-serials.txt
http://thephantomshrine.co.uk/Phantomatwar/phantomatwar.htm

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
14-Nov-2010 11:55	ASN archive	Added
14-Nov-2011 19:44	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Registration, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
17-Nov-2011 17:32	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Source, Narrative, ]
31-Mar-2013 09:09	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative, ]