Schleswig - Schleswig

On February 3, 1940 at 12:00 AM, Schleswig - Schleswig experienced a crash involving Heinkel He.111, operated by German Air Force - Deutsche Luftwaffe, with the event recorded near Tynemouth Northumberland.

The flight was categorized as survey / patrol / reconnaissance and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

5 people were known to be on board, 2 fatalities were recorded, 3 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 40.0%.

Crew on board: 5, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is terrorism act, hijacking, sabotage. While cruising off the British coast during a reconnaissance mission, the twin engine aircraft was shot down by a RAF Hawker Hurricane and crashed into the sea some 15 miles off Tynemouth. Three crew members were rescued as two others were killed. Crew (26th Squadron): Ofw Fritz Wiemer, pilot, Fw Franz Schnee, observer, Uffz Alfred Dietrich, wireless operator, Uffz Willi Wolff, engineer, † Uffz Karl-Ernst Thiede, air gunner. †

Aircraft reference details include registration 1H+GK.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 55.0140°, -1.4343°.