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Date: Tuesday 4 July 1989
Time:
Type: MiG-23M "Flogger-B"
Owner/operator: Soviet Air Force
Registration: 29
MSN:
Fatalities: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location: Bellegem, West Flanders - Belgium
Phase: Initial climb
Nature: Military
Departure airport: Bagicz near Kołobrzeg (Poland)
Destination airport: Bagicz near Kołobrzeg
Confidence Rating: Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources
Narrative: Engine problems during a trainging flight forced the pilot to eject. The MiG continued unmanned across Poland and Germany before it ran out of fuel. It crashed into a house at Bellegem, Belgium, killing a man on the ground.







 
Soviet delegation, Brest Litovsk (01-15-1918) :

Seated left to right :
Lev Kamenev (executed august 25,1936)
Adolph Joffé (suicide november 16, 1927)
Anastasia Bitsenko (executed june 16, 1938).

Standing left to right :
Vladimir Lipskiy (?)
Peteris Stucka (natural death 1932)
Léon Trotski (murdered august 2, 1940)
Lev Karakhan (executed september 20, 1937).

Not present :
Nikolaï Krylenko (executed july 29, 1938).
Grigori Sokolnikov (murdered by NKVD may 21, 1938).

 
Lucky13 said:
View attachment 789834
Vichy French 5° escadrille Dewoitines at Eleusis airfield, Athens in May 1941.
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From Groupe de Chasse III/6 - Pierre Le Gloan flew with this unit in plane n° 6 (n°277).
The D 520 were replaced from may 1st, 1943 with P-39Qs that, oddly enough were universally hated...
Reequipped from december 8, 1944 with P-47 D.
 
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