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Date: | Friday 26 October 1951 |
Time: | 14:50 |
Type: | MiG-15bis |
Owner/operator: | Soviet Air Force |
Registration: | |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 15 km SW of Sukchon -
North Korea
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Tatung-kao |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:17th IAP, 303th IAD. This MiG flown by St/Lt Kordanov, as wingman of Maj Pravotorov, was attacked by a pair of F-86s of 4th FIW, 336th FIS. Kordanov´s MiG was hit by the F-86 flown by 1th Lt Claude Mitson, and with his jet burning forced the wounded Kordanov to eject.
Sources:
Air War Korea 1950-1953 / Robert Jackson, 1998
U.S. Air-to-Air Victories during the Korean War / ACIG Korean War Team -
http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_307.shtml Fighter Combat over Korea Part 2: Jet Aces (In: Wings of Fame Vol.2, 1996)
L.Krylov, Y.Tepsurkaev, I Seidov, R.Jackson, A.German, Gordon and Rigmant,B.Cull, D.Newton, W.Thompson, R.Dorr, X.Zhang, Sutyagin.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
11-Jan-2011 14:00 |
ASN archive |
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28-Aug-2012 12:09 |
Daniel Nole |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |