Date:	Sunday 22 February 1942
Time:	12:10
Type:	Messerschmitt Bf 109 F-4
Owner/operator:	4./JG 54 Luftwaffe
Registration:	7524
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Insterburg, Ostpreussen (now Chernyakhovsk, RU) -   Germany
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Ferry/positioning
Departure airport:
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Uffz Paul Gnieser of 4./JG 54 was killed on 22 February 1942 when his Bf 109 F-4 WNr 7524 was totally destroyed at 1210 hrs in a crash on Insterburg airfield, East Prussia (now Chernyakhovsk, Russia) during a ferry flight. The reason of the crash was determined to be pilot mistake.

Paul Gnieser death card (https://www.fold3.com/image/692673876)
JG 54 loss list, by Günther Rosipal (https://www.jg54greenheart.com/jg-54-loss-list/)
"Die Jagdfliegerverbände der deutschen Luftwaffe 1934 bis 1945, Teil 9/I: Winterkampf im Osten 06.12.1941 bis 30.04.1942", by Jochen Prien & co. ISBN 978-3-923457-76-6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernyakhovsk
http://www.maplandia.com/russia/kaliningradskaya-oblast/chernyakhovskiy-rayon/chernyakhovsk/

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
09-Feb-2022 10:14	TigerTimon	Added
22-Feb-2022 19:10	Laurent Rizzotti	Updated [Time, Location, Country, Nature, Source, Narrative]
02-Jul-2022 08:50	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]
02-Jul-2022 09:24	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]