" October 2006 (UTC)

That website does not seem like a good source. 

New sources:

NY Times  Dec. 14, 1995; p A1 (not Op-Ed page) - ""A U.S. Team Seeks Body of War Pilot"" by Tim Weiner:
Shortly after he [Speicher] entered Iraqi airspace, his plane disintegrated in midair. Navy intelligence were never sure why. They later concluded that he either had a freak midair collision with an Iraqi MiG-25 or that the enemy plane shot him out of the sky.

Aviation Week & Space Technology  Jan. 22, 2001 (Vol. 154, No. 4); p 21 (Washington Outlook section) - ""Not Hopeful"":  Senior military commanders who gathered here for the 10th anniversary of the 1990-91 Persian Gulf war are skeptical about the survival of Lt. Cdr. Michael Speicher, the Navy pilot who was shot down on the first night (Jan. 16, 1991) of attacks on Iraq. His F/A-18 crashed west of Baghdad after being attacked by a MiG-25.

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