Throughout my military service I often heard the story of a Russian Mig that made an emergency landing at an alaskan base probably King Salmon. According to the story the Mig had a fried electrical sytem and was on bingo fuel. The aircraft was patched together and and sent back to russia. Reportedly a picture of the aircraft parked in front of base ops was hung inside everafter. Any info on this story,particularly the fate of the name and fate of the pilot after his return to Russia.
Originally posted by slidelock03: Throughout my military service I often heard the story of a Russian Mig that made an emergency landing at an alaskan base probably King Salmon. According to the story the Mig had a fried electrical sytem and was on bingo fuel. The aircraft was patched together and and sent back to russia. Reportedly a picture of the aircraft parked in front of base ops was hung inside everafter. Any info on this story,particularly the fate of the name and fate of the pilot after his return to Russia.
amm...do you think you can tell me what year did this happen in and what mig was it?
I was up in ALaska and saw some pic.s of this aircraft. It wasn't a "mig" figther, it was a IL-28 Beagle 2 engine bomber/recon aircraft. Didn't hear about the electrical problem ...I heard it was just low on fuel. It landed, spent the night and took off the next day. There was a new paper photo of the crew with locals ...but no U.S. military. I'm sure if Gen. Lemay had know, we STILL wouldn't know about the russian crew! *G*
