Serial | 06D-13 | |||||||||||||||
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Model | F-16A-05-CF Fighting Falcon | |||||||||||||||
Status | Crashed | |||||||||||||||
Comments | crashed 26.04.83 when two Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16 aircraft (J-224 and J-227) collided with terrain near farms during a dog fight at low altitude near Hoogeveen, Netherlands. The pilot, of J-224, 2nd Lieutenant B. Van Winkel, did not survive the impact. Both aircraft were performing a close-in dogfight in dusk conditions and suffered what is known as Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) | |||||||||||||||
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