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Date: | Saturday 16 January 1943 |
Time: | |
Type: | Blohm & Voss BV 138C-1 |
Owner/operator: | 3./Aufkl.Gr.406 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 310100 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Tromsøysundet -
Norway
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:In 1943 the Luftwaffe used more and more catapult ships to launch Bv 138 starting from patrol. As a POW later said to his British captors, it was difficult for a Bv 138 to take off from the sea with more than 3,000 l of gas, while by using a catapult it was possible to take off with 5,200 l, allowing a patrol time of 15-16 hours. But this launching processus was also the cause of several accidents in the first months of 1943.
On 16 January 1943, the BV 138C-1 WNr 310100 DZ+EH of 3./406 was totally destroyed during a catapult launch from the seaplane tender Friesenland in Tromsøysundet, a strait located in the municipality of Tromsø, Norway. The whole crew was unhurt and their names are not known.
Sources:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120320130812/http://www.rafandluftwaffe.info/luftwaffe1.html http://www.luftwaffe.no/SIG/Losses/tap43.html https://www.historisches-marinearchiv.de/projekte/luftwaffenfahrzeuge/luftwaffen_fahrzeuge_seeflugzeuge/ausgabe.php?flugtyp=%25&where_value=121 [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.historisches-marinearchiv.de/projekte/luftwaffenfahrzeuge/luftwaffen_fahrzeuge_schiffe/ausgabe.php?where_value=208]
"Les Hydravions de la Luftwaffe, volume 2", by Jean-Louis Roba and Hans-Werner Neulen. ISBN 978-2-914017-55-8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troms%C3%B8ysundet Location
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
16-Jan-2017 17:39 |
Laurent Rizzotti |
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18-Dec-2019 19:51 |
nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |