[Flyingkag]

Hi Leendert and Khorat,

I have checked in our local newspaper archives and you were right; my plane near Ingweileir is the one crashed on july 14th 1969!

Newspapers (16 july 1969) explains that 3 planes were flying together, and two had a light mid-air collision. Both others could land safe at their base (it was not Ramstein but another big US airfield near Luxembourg (I cannot remember the name, begins with D..., sorry I have let the article at my office).

Pilot of the crashed F-102A airplane was Lt Jimmy McIlwain; he bailed out, and landed safe about 15km from crash site. Crash happeed near village of Lichtenberg in the forest; plane maed a vertical dive, and exploded in teh forest as hitting. There is a huge hole in the ground there, and thousands of little parts from the plane all around.

It appears that it had a four colour camouflage as it crashed (hell brown, dark green, kind of black, and white.

Do you know if McIlwain is still with us?

Maybe a pict of him, or biography?

Do you believe such a plane in 1969 could have a bomb on board on that day, or ammunation, or did just the impact create a 6 meters bright, 3 meters deep cratere in stone earth???

Thakns for your successfull help!

Mathias