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North Rhine-Westphalia

Detmold District

Kreis Minden-Lübbecke
Porta Westfalica

Starfighter Crash Memorial (1965)

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Detmold District

Kreis Minden-Lübbecke
Porta Westfalica

Starfighter Crash Memorial (1965)

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Starfighter Crash Memorial (1965)

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    July 12, 2018

    Stories about the Starfighter are still unbelievable and this is where one crashed. The research on this pilot rewards with a few more information: The 27-year-old student pilot and Sergeant Günter Pethke from Berlin and his flight instructor were on a practice flight. While the first aircraft flew just over the Wesergebirgskamm, the student pilot did not manage the mountain. The scene of the accident was a single rubble field, the remains of the machine spread over a six-hectare area due to the explosion. The Bundeswehr cordoned off the area widely.

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      In memory of the Starfighter crash 1965.

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        October 28, 2022

        sad part of our history and the failure of politics, a crash site of a starfighter where the young soldier/pilot died this happened 116 times in Germany alone!!!!!! There's a good movie on the subject, "Starfighters, They Wanted to Take the Sky"

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          Location: Porta Westfalica, Kreis Minden-Lübbecke, Detmold District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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