ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 305503
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| Date: | Monday 4 January 1943 |
| Time: | 20:55 LT |
| Type: |  Dornier Do 217 E-4 |
| Owner/operator: | 4./KG 40 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 4381 |
| MSN: | F8+BM |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Fyrsway, Fairlight, near Hastings, East Sussex, England -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Soesterberg airfield, the Netherlands |
| Feindflug - operational sortie |
Skimmed the top of a cliff and crashed into an empty bungalow.
The crew had taken off for a mine-laying sortie:
(FF) Feldwebel Hartmut Eucker
(B) Gefreiter Rolf Fischer
(Bf) Unteroffizier Ernst Kern
(Bs) Unteroffizier Kurt Tomczyk
Sources:
GQM (#8); The Blitz, Then & Now, page 196; VDK
Dornier Do 217 (Crécy) by Chris Goss
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=55052
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