ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 144760
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| Date: | Monday 30 October 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) |
| Registration: | 42-3438 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | North Sea - |
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Fersfield, Stn 140, UK |
| Helgoland, Germany |
Part of Operation Aphrodite / Project Castor.
Unmanned "flying bomb" intended for docks in Germany. Due to bad weather intention was to re-direct the plane towards Berlin but control was lost and the plane run out of fuel somewhere over North sea and crashed.
This seems to be a mix-up between the two drones. 42-30066 was turned towards central Germany - course135 degrees as it did not respond to "Down" command at the I:P. However it took some turns of its own, went NNE and crashed at Vissla, near the city of Trollhättan, Sweden
42-3438 lost contact during the flight, but it was regained, but lost again at the I.P.
"388th B.G. Intelligence Report - Aphrodite Mission No. 13 30 October 1944" (attached) states: "When turning the drone at the I.P. it went out of control and took a heading of 345 degrees. All efforts to turn or dive the drone failed, although the Control Ship followed it to 54 degrees28" N - 07degrees 10" East. The Mother Ship turned back at this point at 1358 o'clock, leaving the drone on a heading of 345-349 degrees at an altitude of 200 feet."
Sources:
http://www.forcedlandingcollection.se/USAAF/USAAF140-441030-mugwump.html
Images:
Scanned report, obtained from USAF
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 02-Apr-2012 10:35 | Masen63 | Added |
| 25-Nov-2019 18:41 | karlwiki | Updated [Narrative, Photo] |
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