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Date: | Sunday 7 May 1944 |
Time: | 00:02 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 |
Owner/operator: | 4./NJG 5 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 5433 |
MSN: | C9+EM |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Schliffkopf mountain, Oppenau, Baden-Württemberg -
Germany
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Hagenau airfield, modern France |
Destination airport: | Heimatflug (non-operational sortie) |
Narrative:The aircraft was engaged in an 'Y-flug', a flight guided by the Y-Verfahren service of the Luftwaffe.
It crashed into the 1054 metres high Schliffkopf mountain and was destroyed. The two men were killed:
(FF) Obergefreiter Arno Seibert
(Bf) Obergefreiter Hermann Hasel
Sources:
NVM (NJG5_II_033, NJG6_III_001); Kock, KTB NJG6, page 84
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