Mig-19S - Horovice, Czech Republic
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N 49° 50.542 E 013° 53.407
33U E 420198 N 5521695
A place of a Mig-19S crash.
Waymark Code: WMT5G8
Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 09/29/2016
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About Mig-19S
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 (NATO reporting name: "Farmer") is a Soviet second-generation, single-seat, twin jet-engined fighter aircraft. It was the first Soviet production aircraft capable of supersonic speeds in level flight. A comparable U.S. "Century Series" fighter was the North American F-100 Super Sabre, although the MiG-19 would primarily oppose the more modern McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and Republic F-105 Thunderchief over North Vietnam.
The Soviet of The Ministers of the Soviet Union issued an order #286-133 to start serial production on 17 February 1954 at factories in Gorkiy and Novosibirsk. Factory trials were completed on 12 September 1954, and government trials started on 30 September. Problems with the initial production MiG-19, were addressed in the SM-9/3 prototype which pre-saged the MiG-19S production version, which supplanted the initial MiG-19 in production at Gorkiy and Novosibirsk from June 1956.
Approximately 5,500 MiG-19s of all versions were produced, in the USSR, Czechoslovakia as the Avia S-105 and People's Republic of China as the Shenyang J-6. The aircraft saw service with a number of other national air forces, including those of Cuba, North Vietnam, Egypt, Pakistan, and North Korea. The aircraft saw combat during the Vietnam War, the 1967 Six Day War, and the 1971 Bangladesh War.
All Soviet-built MiG-19 variants were single-seaters only, although the Chinese developed the Shenyang JJ-6 trainer version of the Shenyang J-6. With stabilization problems and "numerous crashes", the Russians had lost faith in the MiG-19, and moved on to the newly emerging MiG-21.
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About crash
CZ: K letecké havárii došlo v úterý 17. 5.1966 okolo 18.00 hod na záložním letišti Horovice-Tlustice. Na letounu Mig-19S vc. 610859 zahynul velitel roje 5. stíhacího leteckého pluku /dále 5.slp/ Plzen kpt. Josef Matoušek. Pluk na toto letište prelétl o den dríve, v pondelí 16.5. aby odtud vykonávali lety v rámci letecko-taktického cvicení. Ctyriatricetiletý pilot kpt.Josef Matoušek havaroval behem pristání ze tretího letu.
EN:
The plane crash occurred on tuesday, 17 5. 1966 around 18.00 beside an airport Horovice-Tlustice. The PO Cpt. Josef Matousek crashed during a landing.