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(LEAD) N. Korean helicopter crashes in China, killing pilot: source(actually MIG-21)
Yonhap News ^ | 08/18/10

Posted on 08/17/2010 10:56:49 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

(LEAD) N. Korean helicopter crashes in China, killing pilot: source

SHENYANG, China, Aug. 18 (Yonhap) -- A North Korean helicopter crashed in a Chinese border area, killing the pilot aboard who may have attempted to defect to Russia, intelligence sources here said Wednesday.

The crash took place in Fushun Prefecture in the province of Liaoning Tuesday afternoon, the sources said, adding the pilot was the only person in the chopper when it crashed.


"The pilot died on the spot," one source said, adding the Chinese authorities were able to identify the nationality of the helicopter only after the crash.

Chinese authorities had confirmed that a small aircraft flew into their territory but did not identify its origin.

"The helicopter unexpectedly crashed while flying over Fushun," the source said, declining to be identified. It remains unclear what the model of the aircraft was.

Another source said that the helicopter is believed to have lost its direction while flying to Russia after escaping North Korea. China has a repatriation pact with North Korea, and that may have led the pilot to choose Russia as his destination.

Fushun is about 200 kilometers away from a North Korean air base in the border town of Sinuiju. The number of North Korean soldiers defecting from their impoverished homeland has increased in recent months as food shortages deepen, observers say.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; crash; defection; famine; foodsupply; mig21; nk; nkorea; russia
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“Is the rescued guy already dead?”

If the pilot survived he could give the Chinese a good look into the readiness of the NK airforce. If they say he’s dead they don’t have to return him.


41 posted on 08/18/2010 4:08:39 AM PDT by PastorBooks
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This sounds just like a chinese Arkancide.


42 posted on 08/18/2010 4:17:00 AM PDT by chainsaw ( 'You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal)
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To: chainsaw

Pilot wanting to leave socialist paradise. Obviously mentally ill. Obama administration spokesman states if not killed in crash, ought to be drug tested.


43 posted on 08/18/2010 4:32:55 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: Int

It is not a MiG-15. The ident is a MiG-21.


44 posted on 08/18/2010 4:38:57 AM PDT by Tommyjo
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To: TigerLikesRooster; All
TLR? Thanks for this thread and the excellent data, and just to echo other FReepers, don't think for one second that you are any kind of 'fool', absolutely NO WAY my FRiend, you don't have control over the naming conventions of any image hosting service, especially with a dynamic (as in 'changing') story like this one. You scooped 'em as I see it, and the pilot that was presumably seeking to defect should have followed the example of the Number One Juchebag Kim Jong, and taken a TRAIN, instead of flying. ;)

Nice catch TLR! :)
45 posted on 08/18/2010 4:45:16 AM PDT by mkjessup
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To: Candor7

The pilot probably tried to bail out... only to realize that their ejection seat hadn’t been worked on since the Norks bought the MiG-21 from the USSR all those many years again.

Then died on impact.


46 posted on 08/18/2010 5:03:09 AM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: mkjessup; Candor7; AmericanInTokyo; AdmSmith
Update 1 from Yonhap News

According to Kyodo News, there is a survivor from the crash who was able to parachute down to safety, quoting Hong Kong media.

Update 2 from Yonhap News

Summary: A reporter from Yonhap News drove to reach the crash site in Fushun. However, the site was cordoned off by local police. Checkpoints were set up to restrict access to the site. He managed to interview witnesses and other locals. According to them, it crashed between 3 and 4 pm yesterday(Aug. 17.) It flew low and circled over the village a few times. It made some erratic noises while flying, suddenly stalled and crashed. The plane was relatively intact after the crash.

47 posted on 08/18/2010 5:23:32 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: epluribus_2

“Let me be clear...he had the right to leave but I won’t comment on whether it was wise.”


48 posted on 08/18/2010 5:27:16 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

FR rocks. I too love it when we get the news out......correctly!


49 posted on 08/18/2010 6:02:17 AM PDT by freebird5850 (Obama golfed while the Gulf gushed.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

bump


50 posted on 08/18/2010 6:41:59 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The Russian FSB would have sent the pilot back to North Korea.


51 posted on 08/18/2010 7:01:00 AM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Not to mention the fact that Russia has S-300’s and other air defense assets close to North Korea... That’s why the guy flew to China and hoped he could get to Russia through there. All futile though, because the Russians will send Northkors back to North Korea.


52 posted on 08/18/2010 7:02:45 AM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: Greysard

I read an article in a magazine somewhere about an American civolan pilot who bought a MiG-21. He described telling the tower that VERY quickly after take off, that they would be hearing from him again, and that final approach would be like 200kts and that he would be nearly out of fuel.


53 posted on 08/18/2010 7:32:31 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Do you think that the owner of the house that the plane crashed into will get compensation from a) China, b) NK or c) no compensation?


54 posted on 08/18/2010 8:29:26 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
TLR, once again, kicks ASS and takes NAMES.

Well done, sir. Bravo!

55 posted on 08/18/2010 8:40:13 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Most free, non-communist democracies with a patriotic military would have had a CD'E by now)
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To: AdmSmith
For those of use with extra time to spend. We might find something interesting.:

The North Korean Air Force by Google Earth

http://freekorea.us/2007/04/29/the-north-korean-air-force-by-google-earth/

56 posted on 08/18/2010 8:41:07 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Somebody at the Shinuiju Air Base (Uiju Korea Peoples Army Air Force) HERE will have to take responsiblity and be executed or sent to the camps. Further up the chain of command, they could also sack a General or two, particularly over border security and (failure of) shooting down any skeedaddling DPRK jets trying to make it out with defecting pilots to China or Russia. It will be interest to get humint on any shake ups in that region of the Party and Military over this DPRK screw up.
57 posted on 08/18/2010 8:45:37 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Most free, non-communist democracies with a patriotic military would have had a CD'E by now)
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To: AdmSmith

us =>us


58 posted on 08/18/2010 8:45:42 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo
Press reports have mentioned a North Korea airfield at Sinuiju as a likely place of origin, but I’ve never seen anything but Il-28 bombers on that field.

http://www.freekorea.us/2010/08/18/north-korean-fighter-pilot-dies-in-possible-defection-attempt/

59 posted on 08/18/2010 8:49:37 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Thanks for the ping.


60 posted on 08/18/2010 9:06:33 AM PDT by GOPJ (Where's Obama's condemnation of bitter Muslims who cling to their religion?-FreeperTChad)
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