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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; AmericanInTokyo; Jet Jaguar; monkapotamus; Cindy

Gee Louize Tiger
That look like 1950 model am I wrong about it I could understand why Cuba has those 1957 chevys COME ON Chia Pet get some new model of a plane Gee Louize

Is NK that broke just out of it

I think Chia Pet is fan of 1950s models like in Godfather 2 LOL!


61 posted on 08/18/2010 9:36:42 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I think reason why plane crash IS PLANE IS OLD That reason why not enough fuel

BOY That plane look like something out of 1950s you see on Hitler Channel


62 posted on 08/18/2010 9:38:13 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: SevenofNine

Early 60s.


63 posted on 08/18/2010 1:19:44 PM 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: Gondring

I was off decade you know what I mean ROFL

MAN Chia Pet is that out of dated he need go one of those fashion reality show What not to wear LOL!


64 posted on 08/18/2010 2:01:58 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: SevenofNine
Well, later variants than that one (assuming the identification as a PF/PFM is right) are still being used by many countries to this day and into the future. I know that some were being sold even a few years ago, and India will continue using MiG-21 Bison for perhaps another decade or nearly so. In fact, Israeli upgrades are being marketed, and the Russians claim that their upgraded version is better than the F-16 head-to-head (yeah, an F-16A, perhaps :-).

But yes, if it is a PF/PFM, it's one of the earlier variants, dating from the early-mid 1960s.

MAN Chia Pet is that out of dated he need go one of those fashion reality show What not to wear LOL!

Yeah, but if you keep the society closed off, who's to say anything?!

65 posted on 08/18/2010 3:04:47 PM 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: Gondring

What next we find out that Chia Pet drive 1957 Chevy from Godfather 2 LOL!


66 posted on 08/18/2010 3:55:01 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: mkjessup
Juchebag Kim Jong

LOL! That's a keeper.

67 posted on 08/18/2010 4:01:43 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: SevenofNine

hehehe!


68 posted on 08/18/2010 4:16:38 PM 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; SevenofNine

Things must be getting much, much worse in NK.


69 posted on 08/18/2010 5:24:54 PM PDT by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: rdl6989

It made UK Telegraph story

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7951771/Intelligence-experts-analyse-North-Korean-fighter-jet-crash.html


70 posted on 08/18/2010 5:29:26 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: rdl6989

Speaking of CHina Pet there might be infighting among his family to name successor hear of the movie Lion in winter

Meet NK version of that LOL!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/7952014/North-Korea-steps-up-Kim-Jong-il-succession-campaign.html


71 posted on 08/18/2010 5:34:20 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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