ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 239187
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| Date: | Monday 6 September 1943 |
| Time: | 01:50 LT |
| Type: |  Heinkel He 219 V10 |
| Owner/operator: | 3./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 190010 |
| MSN: | G9+FB |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Gevelsdorf, Titz, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Venlo airfield, the Netherlands |
Feindflug (operational sortie). On the night of 5-6 September, RAF Bomber Command raided Mannheim & Ludwigshafen am Rhein.
The aircraft was hit by return fire while intercepting a homeward-bound enemy bomber. The crew set course back to Venlo, but shortly after both engines simultaneously lost power. Almost certainly the control cable from the fuel tank selector valve was damaged in the exchange of fire - as the pilot discovered on the return flight back to Venlo when he was unable to switch to Tank 1.
The ejection seats failed to fire and both men evacuated the aircraft in the common way, while over Güsten near Jülich. However, they both struck the tail unit of the Heinkel:
(FF) Oberleutnant Heinz Strüning / survived, entered hospital in Jülich with six broken and several bruised ribs
(Bf) Oberfeldwebel Willi Bleier / was found dead the next day with his parachute unopened
Sources:
He 219 Losses from 'The Heinkel He 219' by R. Francis Ferguson
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
LW Losses by Michael Balss
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 15 August 1943 | 190010 | Stab I./NJG 1 Luftwaffe | 0 | Venlo Airfield, Limburg |  |
sub |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Aug-2020 18:44 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 10-Aug-2020 18:42 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location, Narrative] |
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