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Date: | Friday 11 January 1952 |
Time: | |
Type: | North American F-86E-1 Sabre |
Owner/operator: | USAF |
Registration: | 50-612 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Near Sinanju -
North Korea
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RKSW |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:F-86E-1 flown by 1th Lieutenant Thiel M. Reeves(51th FIW 25th FIS)was heavy damaged by the MiG-15bis flown by Kapt Nikolai V. Sutyagin(17th IAP 303th IAD). Reeves with his wingman take the heading to Cho-do for eject but this last subsequently lost sight of him near the island. An aerial search along the west coast of Korea was unsuccessful.Reeves was declared MIA.
Sources:
http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/korea/reports/air/ L.Krylov, Y.Tepsurkaev, I Seidov, A.German, Gordon and Rigmant,B.Cull, D.Newton, W.Thompson,N.Sutyagin, X.Zhang,V.Zabelin,M.Mikhin.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
25-Apr-2011 01:44 |
Daniel Nole |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
27-Apr-2011 00:21 |
Daniel Nole |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |