{"id":148,"date":"2007-05-29T07:04:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T23:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2009-05-24T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T02:27:21","slug":"charlie-wus-%ef%bc%88%e5%90%b3%e8%bc%89%e7%86%99%ef%bc%89-last-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Wu’s \uff08\u5433\u8f09\u7199\uff09 Last Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer, aviation historian Clarence Fu told me the following story (I added the Chinese characters):<\/p>\n

In yesterday\u2019s monthly meeting of our aviation historian club, we invited ex RoCAF F-104 pilot Huang Tong-rong \uff08\u9ec3\u6771\u69ae\uff09 as our guest. He siad on Feb. 17, 1966, he received an order to scramble 4 Starfighters to go into mainland China to rescue a \u201cfriendly aircraft\u201d. He saw a high contrail heading east and some curved contrails below that contrail. Later he found it was an U-2, so the 4 F-104s circled the U-2 to protect it.\u00a0 When they reach Kinmen island, other aircrafts took over and they went back to CCK AFB. Later he found out the U-2 pilot was Wu Chai-shi \uff08\u5433\u8f09\u7199\uff09 and regreted to know that Wu was killed while tried to land in Shuenam \uff08\u6c34\u6e73\uff09 AFB on the same day. Huang don\u2019t know why Wu chose Shuenam. CCK has a much longer runway and is not far from Shuenam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few days ago,\u00a0another aviation enthusiast sent me an account of the same incident:<\/p>\n

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Both accounts contradict the official story that Wu was killed in a training mission.\u00a0 So I searched my collection of declassified CIA documents to find out the true cause.\u00a0 It turned out that Wu was indeed flying a training mission when he was killed.<\/p>\n

The following cable was issued shortly after Wu’s U-2F crashed (check the date).\u00a0 It clearly states that Wu was on a training mission (Paragraph 3).\u00a0 Also the aircraft did not ditch but slammed into a farm house, which would\u00a0cause some difficulties for\u00a0the salvage effort later.<\/p>\n

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The following two cables provide a more detailed picture of the crashed aircraft.\u00a0 So it was unlikely that the films were removed from the aircraft at the same time as Wu was rescued from the cockpit, as described by the second account in the beginning of this post.<\/p>\n

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The following text was taken from the IDEALIST Operational Summary and Status (February 1966).<\/em>\u00a0 As it said, there was no operational overflight mission during that month.\u00a0 There was no overflights in January 1966 either.<\/p>\n

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The following was extracted from a mission listing which tallies the 511 U-2 missions from June 20, 1956 through May 18, 1968.\u00a0 The first column is the serial number of the mission.\u00a0 There was no operational mission in February 1966.\u00a0 Also note that the mission on September 8, 1967 involved enemy actions and the pilot was killed.<\/p>\n

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The text \u00a0below is excerpted from the Office of Special Activities, 1954-68, Chronology<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Hopefully you have been convinced that Charlie Wu was killed on a training mission.\u00a0 If not, I hope you will after reading the\u00a0official investigation report<\/a>.\u00a0 Nowhere in the document were enemy actions ever mentioned.\u00a0 Have a nice day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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