ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49805
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| Date: | Thursday 5 October 1944 |
| Time: | 15:00 LT |
| Type: | Messerschmitt Me 262 A-2a |
| Owner/operator: | 3./KG 51 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 170093 |
| MSN: | 9K+BL |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Overasselt - Nederasselt area, Gelderland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | based at Rheine airfield, Germany |
The aircraft was severely damaged during a dog fight with Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk IX aircraft of 401 Squadron RCAF. from B.84 De Rips airfield.
The 24-year-old pilot, Hauptmann Hans-Christoph Buttmann, bailed out at a height of 300 metres but his parachute did not open.
He did not survive and was initially buried at Molenhoek, municipality Heumen (Gelderland); his final resting place is at Ysselsteyn cemetery in Limburg; grave U-3-62.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4472&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
O'Connel; Foreman, Me262 Comb.Diary, s.70; Jurleit, Me 262 im Einsatz, s.170; Liste-RT (ADI-g 256, HW5 555, NVM)
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 14-Jun-2015 19:24 | gerard57 | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Oct-2019 15:34 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Oct-2019 20:59 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 09-Dec-2019 15:32 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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