Date:	Tuesday 18 February 1941
Time:
Type:	Messerschmitt Bf 110 D-3
Owner/operator:	5./NJG 1 Luftwaffe
Registration:	4227
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants:
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Deelen Airfield, Gelderland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Deelen airfield
Destination airport:

Narrative:
On 18 February 1941 the Bf 110 D-3 WNr 4227 of 5./NJG 1 was destroyed in a crash while taking off from Deelen airfield for an exercice with Flak gunners. The cause of the crash was 'Reifenschaden, überschlag' (tire damage, turnover). The pilot, 26-years old Leutnant Harras Matthes, was killed. He had suffered a heart attack following a burst tire. There was no other casualty, either he was flying alone or his Bordfunker was unhurt.

Matthes is buried at Ysselsteyn BL 046.

Damage: 60%

"Deutsche Nachtjagd Personalverluste in Ausbildung und Einsatz - fliegendes Personal -", by Michael Balss
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0954&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
"1941 the turning point. Part 1", by John Foreman, ISBN 1-871187-22-2
http://www.volksbund.de/index.php?id=1775&tx_igverlustsuche_pi2[gid]=18b39c124c9e7652f68cee099d86a708
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deelen_Air_Base
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=fr&lat=52.059167&lon=5.877222&z=12&m=b
Kracker Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
25-Feb-2016 09:31	Laurent Rizzotti	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
29-Mar-2018 09:06	TigerTimon	Updated [Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
16-Sep-2018 13:32	Ronny68	Updated [Narrative]
02-May-2019 07:31	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
30-May-2019 13:18	TigerTimon	Updated [Source, Narrative]
16-Jun-2022 02:34	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]