Date:	Wednesday 24 September 1958
Time:
Type:	Shenyang J-5
Owner/operator:	China Naval Air Force
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MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	off Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province -   China
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Shot down by an AIM-9 fired from a Chinese nationalist F-86F jet fighter.
Pilot Zizhong WANG, KIA
First successful use of air-to-air missiles in combat. This was also the only airplane lost by either belligerent during the aerial battle on 1958-09-24. Chinese communists' claim that two F-86 jets had been downed was baseless.

Li, J.R. & Lee, C.Y. 2013. Air Conflicts in the Taiwan Straits, 1950s-1960s-The Development of Air Forces and the Comparison of Conflict-Evaluation between People's Liberation Army and Republic of China Armed Forces. Archives Semiannual, 12(2): 46-65. (in Chinese)
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%9D%E4%BA%8C%E5%9B%9B%E7%A9%BA%E6%88%B0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-9_Sidewinder

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
19-Jun-2021 20:51	TB	Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Country, ]
08-Nov-2024 06:53	RDV	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, ]