ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 183467
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| Date: | Wednesday 12 January 1949 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire HF Mk IX |
| Owner/operator: | Flyvevåbnet (Royal Danish Air Force) |
| Registration: | 41-437 |
| MSN: | CBAF IX.3247 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Lille Nørlund, 7 km South of Ikast, Mid Jutland Region (Midtjylland) -
 Denmark
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Karup AB, Mid-Jutland, Demark (KRP/EKKA) |
| Karup AB, Mid-Jutland, Demark (KRP/EKKA) |
RK911: Spitfire HF.IX , MSN CBAF IX.3247. Built at CBAF (Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory) with Merlin M70 engine. To 8MU RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire 12-10-44. To 124 Squadron 3-2-45. To 29MU RAF High Ercall, Shropshire 4-9-45. Struck off charge when sold to Flyvevåbnet (RDAF - Royal Danish Air Force) as '41-437' 23-3-48
Written off (destroyed) when crashed 1-12-49 at Lille Nørlund, 7 km South of Ikast in "white out" weather conditions. Pilot (aged 22) killed. According to a rough translation from Danish into English of published sources (see links #1 & #2 for the original Danish text):
"On Wednesday, January 12, 1949, 22-year-old Lieutenant A. Limskov Jørgensen, from Aarhus, flew a Spitfire plane into the airspace south of Ikast. Suddenly, he was blinded by snow, fog and lost his bearings, after which he flew directly into the ground at 500 kilometers per hour. A. Limskov Jørgensen was killed on the spot."
Ikast is a Danish town in the Mid Jutland Region (Midtjylland). It was the seat of the former Ikast Municipality.
NOTE: Several published sources confuse this aircraft with Spitfire RDAF 41-419, which was ex-RAF RK811. Spitfire 41-419 crashed near Skrystrup 27-2-50 (see separate entry)
Sources:
1. https://krigeren.dk/danske-soldater-faldet-i-tjenesten-1936-1974/
2. https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyulykker_i_Danmark#1940'erne
3. http://www.milfly.dk/pdf/spitfire.pdf
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p095.html
5. https://www.avialogs.com/spitfire-and-seafire-registry/item/80735-rk911
6. https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=RK911
7. https://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/RK911
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikast
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 12-Jan-2016 17:21 | TB | Added |
| 12-Jan-2016 17:27 | TB | Updated [Source] |
| 12-Jan-2016 17:28 | TB | Updated [Source] |
| 24-Jan-2021 09:33 | Ribewiki | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport] |
| 10-Aug-2023 00:38 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [[Location, Departure airport, Destination airport]] |
| 20-Aug-2023 09:02 | Nepa | Updated [[[Location, Departure airport, Destination airport]]] |
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