ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 55866
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| Date: | Friday 5 November 1965 |
| Time: | forenoon |
| Type: |  Lockheed F-104G Starfighter |
| Owner/operator: | JBG 34 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | DD+120 |
| MSN: | 7128 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Schlegelsberg/Erkheim -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Memmingen AB |
| Memmingen AB | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Disorientation when entering in the clouds just after take off from Memmingen AB. Hptm Dieter Thormeyer (31) did not eject and was killed.
Disorientation might be one reason, but the last radio message was "i have no thrust" at 250 meters height.
Eject was not possible due to the fact, that these (older) seats needed a horizontal position of the aircraft. But the pilot choose to fly a curve in order to save the village Schlegelsberg from a crash of a fulltanked jet.
Sources:
http://www.weltkriegsopfer.de/
Hamburger Abendblatt 6.11.1965
Passauer Neue Presse 6.11.1965, p4
Images:
Berchtesgaden
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Jun-2011 13:18 | TB | Updated [Date, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Jun-2011 14:14 | TB | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Jan-2013 10:06 | TB | Updated [Time, Source] |
| 20-Oct-2014 15:27 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
| 01-Jan-2020 08:41 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 01-Oct-2020 07:35 | Mannheim | Updated [Country, Photo] |
| 15-Nov-2020 09:36 | Anon. | Updated [Country, Destination airport, Narrative] |
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