 Photos taken by one of the Sterett's crew clearly show the MIG being destroyed by a Terrier missile.Eyewitnesses saw a MIG aircraft blown to pieces by a direct Terrier missile strike at only a few thousand yards; pieces of the virtually disintegrated MIG fell into the sea in view of the eyewitnesses.She was decommissioned on 12 October 1972 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on the same day.