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normally right blank 20th Jul 2005 20:51

Picture scanned from an old "Aircraft Illustrated" here (see the second one, as I "tweaked" my scanner):
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=23729

Lon More 15th Sep 2005 00:19

Kolibear
It was an E. German MIG, if I remember correctly. I was on duty at Maastricht UAC and the first we knew about it was when the Lippe Radar guys started to get very excited.
A hot scramble from Soesteberg followed and we tracked the Mig through Dutch Airspace, being careful to keep our traffic well out of it's way as it proceeded from RKN to NIK.
Just after crossing into Belgium it ran out of fuel and crashed killing i believe one person on the ground.

Akrotiri bad boy 16th Sep 2005 13:21

I was on "Q" at Wildenrath at the time of the E German MIG thing, I think it collided with a Belgique farmer in the end. Too much Appelkorn has been consumed to be absolutely certain but I think we also launched for that one. There was nothing quite like a "No Duff" Battle Flight launch for sorting out any colonic problems that one might be suffering from.

Around about the same time there was an eastbound infringement of the no fly zone when that loon Matthias Rust took his Cessna to Red Square.

diginagain 16th Sep 2005 13:30

Didn't Herr Rust launch southbound from Sweden?


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