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Date: | Thursday 25 January 1962 |
Time: | noon |
Type: | Lockheed F-104F Starfighter |
Owner/operator: | WaSLw10 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | BB+366 |
MSN: | 5053 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Oberbohlheim -
Germany
|
Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Nörvenich AB (ETNN) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Afterburner failure on takeoff in formation; aircraft descended, hit a tree, smashed through a drying hall and crashed on a street; student OLt Horst Völter (23) ejected successfully but instructor Hptm Lutz Tyrkowski (29) did not survive; one worker in the hall was minor injured by debris.
Sources:
http://www.916-starfighter.de/Large/bb366.htm http://www.weltkriegsopfer.de/
Hamburger Abendblatt 26.1.1962
http://web.archive.org/web/20171029225354/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/aircraft_by_Type/GermanF104.htm
Passauer Neue Presse 26.1.1962, p2
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Jun-2011 14:42 |
TB |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
03-Jun-2011 01:23 |
TB |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
03-Jun-2011 02:16 |
TB |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
03-Jun-2011 02:18 |
TB |
Updated [Source] |
04-Jun-2011 02:09 |
TB |
Updated [Time, Location, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
13-Jul-2012 10:29 |
TB |
Updated [Time, Source] |
01-Jan-2020 07:54 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |