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| Date: | Monday 17 August 1959 |
| Time: | afternoon |
| Type: |  Focke-Wulf FWP-149D |
| Owner/operator: | Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | DB+392 |
| MSN: | 018 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Gruibingen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Fliegerhorst Lechfeld |
Crashed on a hill (Hoher Bossler, 799,7 m) in the Swabian Alp, 20 meters below the summit in fog and rain (CFIT), in late afternoon. Uffz Götz Gottfried Eichler (23, JaboG32) and Gefr Ernst Meyer (22) killed.
Sources:
https://www.flugzeugforum.de//bw-kennungen-1968-a-53061-4.html
http://www.weltkriegsopfer.de/
http://www.321tigers.org/321.html
Passauer Neue Presse 19.8.1959, p5
Hamburger Abendblatt 18.8.1959, p2
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 14-Aug-2010 10:57 | TB | Added |
| 14-May-2011 12:15 | TB | Updated [Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 22-May-2011 08:17 | TB | Updated [Source, ] |
| 23-Jul-2012 12:18 | TB | Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 06-Jan-2013 09:04 | TB | Updated [Time, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 31-Oct-2019 09:28 | TB | Updated [Operator, ] |
| 01-May-2025 08:09 | TB | Updated [Narrative, ] |
| 27-May-2025 12:19 | TB | Updated [Time, Departure airport, ] |
| 27-May-2025 12:22 | TB | Updated [Time, Narrative, ] |
| 27-May-2025 12:24 | TB | Updated [Narrative, ] |
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