[thlund]

I was thinking after going to the salvage yesterday - and I have to stress that I'm just shooting off my mouth:

The 219 was odd in a couple of ways - the before mentioned MG15 magazine found and only the belly guns were mounted - schräge musik and wing guns were not there. Second I think the plane came down in some kind of controlled (some kind) landing. It was close to shore and heading along the shore, which would make sense when making an emergency landing. But the ejector seats had not been fired so the pilot chose to stay with the plane. Parts of the canopy's were there too.

So here's where I'm just fantazising!! What if this one was one of those at Grove/Karup earmarked for transport to the US? Could explain the partial disarmament (partial dismantlement for transport) and why the pilot - likely an allied test pilot not trusting the ejector seat - chose to stay with the plane.

The current 219 is unknown - no record exist of a crash in those waters. Naturally records could have been lost, but it could also be that in the rather unorthodox days following the end of the war in Europe, a loss of a foreigh aircraft would not be consideret important enough to record, especially if you had enough to go around?