ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 144283
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| Date: | Monday 30 October 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Boeing B-17F-85-BO Flying Fortress |
| Owner/operator: | 560th BSqn /388th BGp USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-30066 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Vissla kvarn S Trollhättan -
 Sweden
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Fersfield /AAF Stn.140 (UK) |
Part of Operation Aphrodite / Project Castor.
Unmanned "flying bomb" intended for docks in Germany. Due to bad weather intention was to re-direct the plane towards Berlin but control was lost and the plane run out of fuel over Sweden and crashed.
388th B.G. Intelligence Report: "The weather was poor. Visibility on the Mission was two to three miles, with ceiling of 700 feet to zero."
However, it was not the weather, but the "down" control failing that caused the change of course.
Intelligence Report again: "A mile or two North-East of the I.P., the drone was put on a heading of 135 degrees, at 1500 feet altitude, at 1323 o'clock and turned loose."
Sources:
http://web.archive.org/web/20111214024013/http://www.forcedlandingcollection.se/USAAF/USAAF14042-30066.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 07-Mar-2012 12:56 | Masen63 | Added |
| 15-Mar-2012 12:04 | Nepa | Updated [Operator] |
| 02-Apr-2012 10:35 | Masen63 | Updated [Plane category, ] |
| 25-Nov-2019 18:40 | karlwiki | Updated [Narrative] |
| 31-Mar-2020 09:42 | Reno Raines | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
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