MiG-21 crashed into an East German apartment block, 1975
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Scott Livingston
May 16, 2024, 3:09:45 PM5/16/24
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On January 14th, 1975, Major Peter Makowicka, aged 33, was on a training mission with his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 21 plane. During approach on the military airbase Cottbus, German Democratic Republic (Eastern Germany), the plane experienced an open cover latch on the engine compressor section, which had been insufficiently secured by a maintenance technician. The engine switched off.
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Scott Livingston
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