Banak – Trondheim

On October 11, 1944 at 12:45 PM, Banak – Trondheim experienced a crash involving Focke-Wulf Fw.200 Condor, operated by German Air Force - Deutsche Luftwaffe, with the event recorded near Lavangen Troms.

The flight was categorized as military and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

51 people were known to be on board, 51 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 5, crew fatalities: 5, passengers on board: 46, passenger fatalities: 46, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. En route from Banak to Trondheim, while cruising north of Narvik, the four engine aircraft went out of control and crashed into the Lavangen fjord, east of Harstad. All 51 occupants were killed, among them 41 Luftwaffe Helferinen (female military assistants). Crew (III./7./KG 40): Lt Hans Gilbert, pilot, Oberfw Gert Jochums, copilot, Oberfw Martin Hochmuth, radio operator, Fw Hubert Langguth, flight engineer, Fw Hans Prahl. Passengers: Hauptmann Major Franz Krenn, Obering D. L. Bömike, Hauptmann Eduard Clement, SS-Rottenführer Emil Widmer, Kriegsmarine Obermaat Eugen Däumichen. Stabshilferin Passengers: Edith Allihn, Erika Busack, Anny Chalupnik, Irmgard Dorth, Gerda Fiebke, Irmgard Friedrich, Anna Glaser, Ruth Griebsch, Elsbeth Grommisch, Anna Göring, Barbara Hill, Elisabeth Hoffmann, Emma Hoffmann, Theresia Hoffmann, Irmgard Karp, Hildegard Krause, Edith Krüger, Ingeborg Kruschewitz, Margrete Leuschner, Charlotte Nickel, Lieselotte Oeffner, Eveline Peters, Franziska Ruhl, Anni Schima, Charlotte Schmidt, Erika Schöne, Hildegard Siegler, Irma Sorgatz, Angela Trenz, Emma Wagner, Gunda Weber, Elisabeth Wiesenhütter, Marianne Seidel, Christel Stappen, Elsbeth Streletzki, Margarete Seibert, Brunhilde Otto, Ilse Otto, Anneliese Ebert, Hilda Röstel, Gertrud Staeglich. Source & photos: http://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/salangen.html

Aircraft reference details include registration F8+ES, MSN 163.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 68.7170°, 17.8163°.