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Originally Posted by Rwolf
Well it could be an embellished reference to the intercept attempt described here, in the same website:
<http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/mig3/I-230.html>
It doesn't claim a capture, but they scared them off for the future.
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"The D aircrafts of 12 GvIAP reached some limited success, for example, during 1942/43 German high-altitude reconnaissance planes Ju-86 sometimes flew safely over Moscow, at the altitude of 13 km where they were unreachable for fighters or AA fire.
Once two pilots from 12 GIAP, Edik Nalivaiko with an high-altitude Yak-9D and Lionia Samohvalov with a Mig-3U, succeeded to get 1 km close to a Ju-86, without reaching it. Nevertheless, after that, such flights over Moscow were stopped."
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Kopenhagen claims that they forced the Ju's down with tracer fire. As I said it was a GDR book about soviet fighter planes, written by a NPA officer. Meaning the story or how he relates it could be complete crap .. well still an interesting book I think.