ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 139735
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| Date: | Wednesday 11 October 1944 |
| Time: | 17:30 approx |
| Type: |  Arado Ar 96 B-2 |
| Owner/operator: | AVIA Prag |
| Registration: | 450673 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | hill west of village Rajnochovice, okr. Kroměříž, Morava -
 Czech Republic
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Praha-Čakovice |
| Slovakia |
T / o at around 16:00 hrs during the alarm at the factory airport in Prague. Crew two Czech employees of Avia aircraft factory. After the start, they headed to rebel Slovakia. In order to escape their attention, they chose to fly at low altitude, which however became fatal. As a result of poor visibility plunged into terrain ridge. The pre-war pilot Kužela died in the crash. His passenger Matička, suffered serious injuries.
At the Gestapo, he argued that Kužela had kidnapped him.
"In the autumn of october 11.1944, a plane appeared over a meadow in west of Rajnochovice.
It crossed the valley and struck the tops of the trees on the other side.
Then it crashed into the top of the hill. Crashed and It started to burn.
Crew:
Mr. Josef Kužela (pilot) killed
Mr. Jiří Matička (passenger) serious injured
Sources:
Soviet Transports
http://www.vrtulnik.cz/ww2/ulety.htm
SNP
Forum (hloubkari.cz)
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 08-Nov-2011 10:11 | Masen63 | Added |
| 25-May-2016 16:55 | TB | Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 15-Dec-2019 12:13 | Nepa | Updated [Registration, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 23-Mar-2022 16:13 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Other fatalities, Source] |
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