On 3/16/2016 2:01 PM, Richard Aiken wrote:

> As the result of a high-altitude, mid-air collision during training, a
> fighter crashed into a farmer's field just outside the little base I was
> assigned to in Germany (back in the late 80s).

Before I checked the dates (a decade or two too late), I would have bet
money the aircraft in question was a F-104 - mostly on the strength of
the tale that the best way to acquire one of those notoriously
unfortunate birds was to buy a plot of German farmland and wait for a
Starfighter to fall on it.

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