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| Date: | Saturday 13 April 1940 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Junkers Ju-52/3mg4e |
| Owner/operator: | Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | DB+JY |
| MSN: | 6657 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Hartvikvatnet, Narvik, Nordland -
 Norway
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Berlin-Tempelhof Airport (THF/EDBB) |
Eleven Luftwaffe Ju-52/3mg4e with troops and supplies (crash-) landed on frozen lake Hartvikvatnet, 4,9 km W of Elvegardsmoen, about 20 km NNW of Narvik during the Narvik campaign. CA+JY (6657) and SE+KC (6669) managed to take off again and landed in Sweden. The other planes sank to the bottom May 1940 when ice melted. Five were salvaged during the 1983/86 period.
Sources:
ktsorens.thilde.org
www.technikmuseum-dessau.de
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