'unreal accidents'

Sometimes you hear of an aircraft loss which you couldn’t dream up in your wildest dreams. I would like to see a tread of these -sometimes funny- stories.

To give you an idea of what I mean:

In 1989, the iron curtain was firmly in place, the USSR had more then one aircraft stationed in the Deutsche Democratische Republic. A young lieutenant was flying his MiG-23 over the East German countryside at 20.000 feet or something and the engine was acting up a bit which forced him to eject. Nothing strange about that wouldn’t you say.
As he was hanging at his shoot he expected to see the aircraft crash nearby, but instead the engine’s problem solved it self and the MiG flew away heading in a Western direction. You can imagine what happened in West Germany when a Russian MiG over flew the Iron Cur into the West. Anyway, the Aircraft went from Germany to Holland to Belguim eventually crashing into a farm and sadly killing the farmer. Talking about bad luck, I can’t begin to calculate the ought of being killed by a Russian fighter in Belgium during the cold war, when it was still cold.

JW