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According to intelligence reports from AI2(g) the cause of the crash was apparently engine failure; the port engine seized and caught fire, and the starboard engine also failed. There is no evidence that RAF night-fighter action had any bearing on this loss. Three crew baled out over March (Cambs) and were captured there. Wreschnick, who was cut about the face/head made a 'fair' belly-landing after skimming over the top of a wood at Welney Wash. He emptied his pistol into the burning port engine nacelle in an attempt to stoke up the fire and destroy the a/c. In this he was unsuccessful as he was disarmed and the fire extinguished by a L/Cpl Keeley and three other ranks of the 2nd Btn., W Norfolk Zone Home Guard.
Joachim Wreschnick revisited the area in the 80s together with Alfred Plank Von Bachselten, pilot of the 3/KG.53 He 111 brought down in Norfolk the same night.

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