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Originally Posted by Stig Jarlevik
I believe this is the well photographed OO-AUI impressed by the RAF from SABENA.
And I totally agree with the seller, 100% RAF's latest Super Fighter...... 
The odd thing with it, is that there are plenty of photos showing it captured more or less intact (hit by AA-fire),
and also plenty of it showing it completely wrecked by fire.
Anyone who can talk me through what happened?
Was there a time set device onboard blowing it up or did the Germans set fire to it perhaps by accident?
Aircraft itself would have been too valuable in an almost undamaged condition.
Cheers
Stig |
Hi Stig,
answer is maybe there :
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?p=105780
" On the 23rd May, some of the Squadron's SM.73P's and civil airliners had landed at Merville, in France, to deliver stores, but while there the airfield was strafed by a formation of Bf-109's, destroying an Ensign and damaging an SM.73P. When the remainder of these aircraft flew back to Britain, they were fired on near Calais and an SM.73P was lost. "
Looks like this DC-3 was damaged - during this period probably this plane was dammaged by straffed Bf 109 and part of the crew was killed. Then the was left on the airfield (but not fired - we have more similar cases from BoF), because we have a lot of photos of intact plane with germans.
Then somebody burn the plane, or maybe was straffed again .......
Faenor