ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 245043
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| Date: | Wednesday 20 October 1943 |
| Time: | 21:30 approx |
| Type: |  Heinkel He 219 A-0 |
| Owner/operator: | Stab I./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 190054 |
| MSN: | G9+CB |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Storbeck, Osterburg, Sachsen-Anhalt -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Venlo airfield, the Netherlands |
Feindflug (operational sortie). On this evening, RAF Bomber Command raided Leipzig in Sachsen.
The aircraft crashed under unknown circumstances. The machine had crashed into a field at high speed in a near-vertical dive, creating a crater eight metres across and three metres deep.
The weather conditions featured heavy cloud and icing above 3000 metres. The two crew members were killed. They had used their ejection seats, but their bodies were found near them:
(FF) Leutnant Walter Schön
(Bf) Unteroffizier Georg Marotzke
Sources:
'He 219' by R. Francis Ferguson
NVM; Balss, MV, page 242
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 27 September 1943 | 190053 | Stab I./NJG 1 Luftwaffe | 2 | Heese, Eldingen, Niedersachsen | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Nov-2020 19:34 | TigerTimon | Added |
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