Zetec: If the Matsapa incident was from November 1966 (see my post #109), then the pilot was not USAF.
And I see mention now of the crash at El Afraq, a sad business all round. The crew was from 267 Sqn, where I was at the time. I recall a briefing a day or two later for pilots only, with the rest of us excluded, and then being detailed for the Honour Guard at the Service funeral of copilot Oz Greenop, with whom I'd done Argosy conversion and then time on 105 Sqn in Aden and Bahrain.