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Date: | Thursday 23 December 1965 |
Time: | afternoon |
Type: | Lockheed F-104G Starfighter |
Owner/operator: | JBG 32 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | DB+234 |
MSN: | 8315 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 4 km N of Laichingen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Lechfeld AB |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Crashed into field after entering a steep dive due to vertico in bad weather; Hptm Josef Weiher (29) did not eject and was killed.
Sources:
http://www.weltkriegsopfer.de/ http://www.916-starfighter.de/Large/db234.htm Passaue Neue Presse 24.12.1965, p4
HamburgerAbendblatt 24.12.1965, p2
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
18-Jun-2011 13:57 |
TB |
Added |
02-Jan-2013 08:35 |
TB |
Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
06-Jan-2013 10:52 |
TB |
Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
01-Jan-2020 09:19 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |