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| Date: | Saturday 18 August 1962 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Hawker Sea Hawk F.101 |
| Owner/operator: | MFG2 Marineflieger |
| Registration: | RB+364 |
| MSN: | AW.6708 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Ahlhorn AB -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Gibraltar/USS Saratoga |
| Germany |
Fired at and damaged by Soviet MiG-21 during illegal flight over East-Germany; escaped but crashed in a field 1km SE of Ahlhorn attempting emergency landing; KptLt Knut Winkler (MFG1) ejected (he killed in collision of two F-104G Starfighter (VA-115/VB-240) 10.5.1966); ten pilots from MFG1 killed, eight survived in Sea Hawk accidents 1958-65
Sources:
http://home.snafu.de/veith/seahawk.htm
http://ddr-luftwaffe.blogspot.com/2007/12/abschu-sea-hawk-ber-der-ddr-1962.html
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-46407271.html
http://www.mfg1.de/Chronik/60er.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Jan-2011 16:21 | TB | Added |
| 26-Apr-2011 06:14 | TB | Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Country, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 26-Apr-2011 10:03 | TB | Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 26-Apr-2011 15:01 | TB | Updated [Narrative, ] |
| 03-May-2011 14:32 | TB | Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 02-Jun-2011 00:20 | TB | Updated [Operator, Narrative, ] |
| 29-Oct-2019 13:02 | Uli Elch | Updated [Operator, Location, ] |
| 30-Oct-2019 19:41 | TB | Updated [Operator, Location, Source, ] |
| 01-Jan-2020 07:59 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator, Operator, ] |
| 30-Jan-2020 08:12 | TB | Updated [Operator, ] |
| 05-Feb-2020 13:14 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator, Operator, ] |
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