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| Date: | Monday 18 May 1942 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: |  Messerschmitt Bf 110 E-1 |
| Owner/operator: | 7./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 3977 |
| MSN: | G9+HS |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Twente Airfield, Overijssel -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Twente airfield - takeoff at 00:19 hrs |
| Twente airfield |
Überschlag bei Landung. The aircraft overturned on landing, while engaged in a Feindflug (operational sortie).
Bordfunker Unteroffizier Kurt Schönfeld was injured. The damage was assessed as 70%.
Due to the presence of mist banks over the runway, the pilot held off too high. And so he set the aircraft down on a mist bank at a height of 10 metres, believing it to be the ground. The aircraft then dropped like a brick and started bouncing and turned over.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1514&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
NVM (NJG1_III_022); Balss, PV
'Huzaren van de Nacht' part one by C. Cornelissen
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 17-May-2017 21:16 | TigerTimon | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 14-Dec-2019 17:55 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Phase, Destination airport, Operator, ] |
| 20-Apr-2020 11:54 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 17-May-2022 12:39 | TigerTimon | Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 17-May-2022 12:42 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative, ] |
| 10-Jun-2022 14:59 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location, ] |
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