This information is added by users of ASN. Neither ASN nor the Flight Safety Foundation are responsible for the completeness or correctness of this information.
If you feel this information is incomplete or incorrect, you can
submit corrected information.
Date: | Sunday 11 May 1941 |
Time: | 00:36 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 C-4 |
Owner/operator: | 3./NJG 3 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 3606 |
MSN: | L1+BL |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Cappeln, Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Vechta airfield, Niedersachsen |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Near Cloppenburg, the aircraft collided with Short Stirling Mk I N6010, bound for Berlin. Both aircraft crashed, the Luftwaffe pilot was the only one who survived.
On this night, RAF Bomber Command raided Hamburg, Emden and Berlin.
Crew:
Flugzeugführer - Feldwebel Heinrich Säwert - bailed out with minor injuries.
Bordfunker - Unteroffizier Walter Schönfeld - killed
Sources:
LW Losses by Michael Balss
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-May-2019 21:29 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
11-May-2019 06:30 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Cn] |
05-Feb-2020 09:55 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |