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Date: | Friday 23 February 1945 |
Time: | 13:22 LT |
Type: | Focke-Wulf Fw 190 D-9 |
Owner/operator: | 9./JG 26 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 500402 |
MSN: | weisse 5 + I |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Twente Airfield, Overijssel -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Rheine airfield (G) |
Destination airport: | Plantlünne airfield (G) |
Narrative:While engaged in a ferry flight, the aircraft diverted to Twente airfield due to a bad weather front. On landing, the aircraft turned over (Überschlag bei Landung).
Unteroffizier Andreas Effelsberg did not survive and was buried at Enschede. He now rests at Ysselsteyn cemetery in Limburg.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T5299&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
PV-JG26 (346); GQM (#12-26); JG2 Verlustliste; Caldwell, JG26 War Diary, II, s.434; VDK
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
18-Feb-2020 09:40 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
22-Feb-2020 09:41 |
Xindel XL |
Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
10-Jun-2022 15:02 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |