vlado wrote:
The only two Mustang 'break-apart' incidents that come to mind are the early P-51D wing failures due to the landing gear retracted design and the other, the large loss of P-51s in the Pacific typhoon enroute during a mission. (A minor thunderstorm loss would have been the 2 aircraft lost that penetrated a storm enroute to Texas back in the 1970s). Not enough to label the Mustang as having a propensity of wing failures.
VL
Hub Zemke lost a wing flying a P-51 in a thunderstorm while flying for the 479th FG, which is how he ended up in Stalag Luft I.
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