possible USAF F-84 or F-104 shot down near Strasbourg?

[Carl Schwamberger]

Originally Posted by Flyingkag

Bill,

What the old man explained I met there on Lichtnebreg is an amazing and terrible history;

It seems that the (canadian) pilot had bailed out over Luxembourg (I believe) because the jet had apparent engine troubles.

Then the Sabre followed his flight without pilot, eastern, for a long trip.

He arrived over the Vosges mountains and flow over the town of Lichtenberg and then followed his way eastern, in the little valley between Reipertswiller and Rothbach.

As he explained that to me, he seemed to think that it was "as if someone would have pulled on the commands" and ordered that it had to go back and crash there.

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The controls of these aircraft were remarkably stable under some circumstances. Still a 180 degree or lesser turn is not impossible. Here is a similar incident in the US just a few years later.

http://www.f-106deltadart.com/71fis_...ing_580787.htm