ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 155671
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| Date: | Wednesday 30 September 1942 |
| Time: | 11:42 |
| Type: |  Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2/trop |
| Owner/operator: | 3./JG 27 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | Gelbe 14 |
| MSN: | W.Nr 14256 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 7 km south of Sidi Abd El-Rahman -
 Egypt
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Sanyet El Qutaifiya airfield |
| Sanyet El Qutaifiya airfield |
3 Staffel, JG 27 was returning to base after an uneventful Stuka escort mission during which no enemy aircraft had been encountered.
While still outside German-controlled territory the unit leader's aircraft suffered a partial engine failure with loss of power and an oil leak resulting in the cockpit being filled with dense smoke.
After a few minutes of difficult flying with the Bf 109 steadily losing height, the pilot arrived over the German lines and attempted to bale out.
He rolled the 109 inverted and vacated the cockpit. As he did so the nose of the plane dropped steeply and the speed built up.
As the pilot fell out he was struck across the chest and hip by the vertical fin and was either incapacitated or killed, and he fell to the desert with his parachute ripcord handle still in its housing.
Hauptman Hans-Joachim Marseille, fighter ace with a total of 158 air victories and recipient of the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds, killed in a flying accident.
R.I.P.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Joachim_Marseille
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 30-Apr-2013 10:01 | angels one five | Added |
| 30-Apr-2013 10:06 | angels one five | Updated [Narrative] |
| 20-May-2013 21:11 | angels one five | Updated [Narrative] |
| 25-Jul-2013 18:18 | Nepa | Updated [Time, Operator] |
| 10-Apr-2014 23:36 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Operator, Phase, Narrative] |
| 15-Mar-2020 09:48 | DG333 | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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