916 Starfighter

CF-104 "762" of 6 ST/R OTU Cold Lake, Canada 1964

CF-104, Canadair model CL-90, Lockheed model 683-04-12, Canadair construction number 683A-1062, RCAF serial number 12762, built by Canadair
taken on service May 1, 1962; first unit 6 ST/R OTU at Cold Lake; January 8, 1963 to Canadair; April 28, 1965 to SAL
June 29, 1965 to 1 Wing; June 12, 1979 to Sollingen; reserialed as 104762 effective June 1970
Tactical Weapon Meet (TWM 11) at Sollingen AB late May 1974 wearing special painted white with red maple leaf rudders
1976 at Twenthe for Tactical Weapon Meet, aircraft wore "1 CAG" in red on white wingtip tanks for the Tactical Weapons Meet
crashed June 9, 1981 with 1 CAG (421 Squadron pilot), aircraft struck trees on a simulated tactical delivery, pilot ejected safely
Lockheed C-2 seat, written off; struck of service November 23, 1983.

The report: The aircraft was holding near the Siegenburg-Range entry point awaiting clearance onto the range for a normal air to ground weapons delivery exercise.
While in the hold, the pilot spotted a single derelict tank in a military training area. The pilot decided to make a simulated strafing attack on the tank and rolled in on it from a
finally close-in position. The attack was initiated from a low total energy state to that take-off flaps and afterburner were used to complete the hard turn onto target.
The attack was abandoned when the pilot realized he was not having normal parameters. As he pulled the nose up through 5 or 10 degrees above the horizon,
the "kicker" fired and it became obvious to the pilot that contact with the trees was imminent. During further recovery efforts, three obvious bumps were felt before
the aircraft started gaining altitude. The aircraft zoom to about 1600 feet AGL and the pilot turned toward Ingolstadt AB.
He became aware of a low speed (210 kts) and slight descent rate (700-800 fpm) conditions, and attempted a stall clearing procedure that was unsuccessful.
At this point the decision to eject was made, but further delay with attempted UHF calls caused the pilot to eject with sufficient time for only two swings in his parachute
before becoming hung up in a tree.