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Re: Stolen C130?
From Joseph Baugher's site, my go-to source for US military aircraft:
7789 (c/n 382-3856, 36th TAS) stolen by a crew chief at RAF Mildenhall who was having
marital problems and who was drinking heavily and wanted to go home.
Crashed in sea off Alderney, Channel Islands, UK May 23, 1969.
Official story is that the illegal pilot got disoriented
in clouds and crashed. There was speculation that the aircraft was
shot down to avoid crashing into a populated area, but this has
always been denied. It is true that a pair of F-100Ds were scrambled
from RAF Lakenheath to give chase.
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