[Gianandrea Bussi]

From the book edited by the It.AF Historical Office and written by the late Gen. Corrado Ricci "Il Corpo Aereo Italiano sul fronte della Manica".

13° Stormo B.T. made the transfer flight on 27 september.
A BR.20M made an emergency landing at Augsburg airport because of engine problem; another bomber had to land in a field near Spa. Both aircraft were probably undamaged.
A third BR.20M landed at Evére airport but went out of the field boundaries, being destroyed or very badly damaged (crewmembers slightly injured).

43° Stormo B.T. made the transfer flight on 27 september too.
A BR.20M suffered an engine failure over the Alps: the commander gave order to the other crewmembers to bail out and he made an emergency landing: he was slightly injured and the aircraft was badly damaged.
Another BR.20M landed at Gablingen (Goblingen?) because of engine problems.
A Squadriglia commander because of ice on the pitot tube in very bad weather with heavy clouds bailed out with the other pilot: the other crewmembers didn't manage to escape from the bomber being killed. The two pilots were both injured due to the low altitude. The other aircraft of the same Squadriglia, because of low training level of the crewmembers, wasn't able to go on with the flight and landed in various airport -four at Nurnberg,one at Munchen, two at Erdoding (Erding?): one of these last two bombers landed in a muddy ground, and was written off.

Hope that this helps.

Gianandrea