ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 205753
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| Date: | Thursday 21 January 1943 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-2 |
| Owner/operator: | 12./JG 5 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 5492 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Dalsveet farm, Frosta -
 Norway
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
On 21 January 1943 the Fw 190 A-2 WNr 5492 of Fw Ernst Koch of 12./JG 5 suffered engine failure over Frosta on return from convoy protection mission. The pilot tried to land on the frozen lake Hovdalsvatnet, but hit Litleholmen and lost parts of his propeller blade on the ice. The plane bounced off over a hillside, cutting off the tree tops and crashed at Dalsveet farm.
Fw Koch had just returned to Vaernes, Norway from operations in Petsamo, Finland. His aircraft was completly smashed at this place, and Koch died shortly after. He rests at Havstein in Trondheim. The crash happened at day time, as schoolchildren was on their way home from school.
Koch was born on 21 September 1916 at Heidenheim.
Sources:
http://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/frosta.html
"Jagdgeschwader 5 Eismeerjäger: Eine Chronik aus Dokumenten U. Berichten: 1941-1945", by Werner Girbig. ISBN 3879433658
http://www.luftwaffe.no/SIG/Losses/tap43.html (no more online)
http://web.archive.org/web/20120320130812/http://www.rafandluftwaffe.info/luftwaffe1.html (no more online)
https://kart.gulesider.no/?c=63.606155,10.845998&z=14&q=%22dalsveet%22;214827022;geo
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 07-Feb-2018 10:36 | Laurent Rizzotti | Added |
| 28-Feb-2020 14:29 | Xindel XL | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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