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...turn, and the leading Russian plane collided with it. The Hungarian plane crashed and exploded with the pilot at the controls. The Russian plane also crashed, but its pilot came floating down to earth by parachute. Picked up by Austrian police, the Russian pilot identified himself as Captain Nikolai Konoklov, a veteran of the Soviet air force. Calmly and confidently he told his story: he had been ordered to intercept two unidentified planes flying over Hungarian territory. The collision was an accident...
...Captain Konoklov's story did not stand up to the evidence of the crashed planes, and scores of eyewitnesses who had seen the Russian seemingly maneuver his plane into the Hungarian and, seconds before the crash, hit the air in his ejection seat. Taxed with this evidence, Konoklov admitted, just before stepping back into Hungary, that he and his wing man had been chasing two escaping Hungarian pilots and, failing to shoot one down, had rammed it. The second Hungarian plane apparently got away, but where it landed (whether in West Germany or Yugoslavia) was one of the week...