ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 246564
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| Date: | Saturday 11 December 1943 |
| Time: | 10:35 approx |
| Type: |  Junkers Ju 188 E-1 |
| Owner/operator: | 7./KG 6 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 260196 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Lac de Genval, Walloon Brabant -
 Belgium
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Brüssel-Melsbroek airfield |
On 11 December 1943 around 10:35, the Specht crew flew near their base, when a major technical problem and an explosion occurred on board. The crew tried to save themselves, but the plane crashed into the Lac de Genval, situated between Waterloo and Wavre. None of the occupants survived the crash - at least two men remained in the wreckage, one aviator was found a few hundred metres from the lake, entangled in his parachute in a tree of the villa Béatrix, on the corner of the avenue des Cormiers and the avenue du Théâtre.
(FF) Feldwebel Franz Specht
(B) Feldwebel Ferdinand Bock
(Bf) Unteroffizier Walter Maas
(Bs) Feldwebel Wilhelm Kohls
Sources:
https://luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be/content/ju-188-wnr260196-te-genval
GQM (#12-24); Horn, KG6, page 262; VDK
Google Maps
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 08-Jan-2021 18:41 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 08-Jan-2021 18:41 | TigerTimon | Updated [Phase] |
| 08-Jan-2021 18:48 | TigerTimon | Updated [Destination airport] |
| 06-Nov-2022 11:28 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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