ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 122130
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| Date: | Monday 26 August 1940 |
| Time: | 13:40 LT |
| Type: | Dornier Do 17 Z-2 |
| Owner/operator: | 7./KG 3 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 1160 |
| MSN: | 5K+AR, weisse A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | North Sea, Goodwin Sands sandbank (London bay), England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield, Belgium (base) |
On an operation against Debden and Hornchurch bases, the aircraft was hit by Boulton Paul Defiant fighters.
The plane was forced to make a wheels-up emergency landing on the Goodwin Sands, in Kent, at low tide following a firefight in the skies above which left crew wounded and both engines damaged.
Of the four crew of the Do 17, two became Prisoners-of-War in Canada and two were killed.
The wreckage of the plane was recovered on Monday 10 June 2013. The plane will be exhibited in the RAF Museum.
Crew:
Flugzeugführer Fw. W. Effmert 51596/29 Luftwaffe - POW
Beobachter Uffz. H. Ritzel 51596/16 Luftwaffe - missing in action
Bordfunker Uffz. H. Reinhardt 51596/33 Luftwaffe Ysselsteyn cemetery (Limburg, the Netherlands); BQ-6-136
Bordmechaniker Gfr. H. Huhn 51598/43 Luftwaffe Cannock Chase cemetery; 1-11-405
Sources:
Le Fana de l'Aviation, MAy 2011, N_498
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2339428/Last-flight-Flying-Pencil-How-Dornier-bomber-recovered-sea-bed-Kent-coast-shot-Battle-Britain-forcing-crew-land-belly-sandbanks.html
http://www.warbirdsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/RAFM-Dornier-Dataplate.jpg Dataplate
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0796B&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Kampfgeschwader/KG3.htm
http://ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20Belgium%20and%20Luxembourg.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 07-May-2011 06:41 | ThW | Added |
| 11-Jun-2013 12:40 | gerard57 | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
| 13-Jun-2013 02:18 | Masen63 | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 31-Jul-2019 06:25 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Dec-2019 21:23 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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