Unmanned Mig-23 Crash July 89

[garp]

Almost forgotten by most but for me it was the strangest thing I've ever seen on a radar tube. Flying through the German, Dutch and Belgian airspace in the middle of the day without anybody on board at FL 350, if I recall it well. Unreal. The chaos in the Ops room, the fighters being scrambled and the waiting for the crash. Never saw anything like that again since that day.

http://home-2.tiscali.nl/~mwarnaar/32tfs-3.htm
http://mm.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/Data/Winx/stories/accid23.html

[Loki]

Agreed, one of the strangest days at work. When the LJAO controller pointed the situation out to me, I first thought it was April 1st.

[RHINO]

I was on Southern Q that day and for the guy who got launched we thought it would be a fair fight!;)