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| Date: | Wednesday 12 December 1951 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star |
| Owner/operator: | USAF |
| Registration: | 49-472 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | E of Khuwa-ri, Korea - |
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Attached to 8th Ftr-Bmbr Gp. Four F-80Cs on close support mission to Kuhwa-ri area, dropped tanks, lost control, crashed inverted into mountain 1 mi E of Kuhwa-ri, no egress noted.
Sources:
http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/korea/reports/air/
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