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| Date: | Sunday 23 May 1943 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Schneider Grunau Baby |
| Owner/operator: | Segelfliegergruppe Fl.H.Kdtr. Sandweiler - Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 031 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Sandweiler airfield -
 Luxembourg
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Sandweiler airfield |
| Sandweiler airfield |
Upon landing at Sandweiler airfield, a Luftwaffe Schneider Grunau Baby glider crashed into a Focke-Wulf Fw 44. Gefreiter Ludwig Wiesner died due to skull fracture and brain injury.
The damage to the glider was assessed as 40%, the damage to the Focke-Wulf under was less than 10%.
Sources:
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=63279
RL 2 III/775, 125
WASt-Gräberkarte
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