Escape of NAGr9 Fi156 from Kertsch 26.8.43

[Andrey Kuznetsov]

Hello, friends!

Found in TsAMO interrogation report of Georgievsky I.A. (Ukrainian, Soviet citizen). He was a ground mechanic in NAGr9 and on 26.8.43 escaped from Kertsch with Fi156. He landed on Elizavetinskaya airfield but smashed the plane due to absence of pilot's experience.

According to GQM list, two "Russians" escaped with Fi156 P2+NH. But nothing about the 2nd man in the interrogation report.

Who knows German side of this story?

Best regards,
Andrey

[John Manrho]

Stolen by 2 russian civilians, Fi 156C-3 WNr. 5375, NAGr 9.

[Andrey Kuznetsov]

Thank you, John.

But it seems Georgievsky was alone in the Fi156. And he said he was enlisted man (soldier) in NAGr 9 ground personnel though it was more favourable to tell that he was a civil. Maybe he was in German uniform.

Regards,
Andrey

[mars]

Is that possible that Georgievsky made a stop somewhere and dropped the other person off?

[Andrey Kuznetsov]

Unlikely. He hadn't any pilot's experience and smashed the plane during the landing on airfield, and had injuries due to bad landing.
Seems impossible what he landed on steppe and then decide to take off again.

[mars]

Originally Posted by Andrey Kuznetsov

Unlikely. He hadn't any pilot's experience and smashed the plane during the landing on airfield, and had injuries due to bad landing.
Seems impossible what he landed on steppe and then decide to take off again.

This makes me recall Colton Harris-Moore, the American teen "barefoot bandit", a petty teen crimial who committed 100 thefts, when he was cornered by police in an island near Seatle, he excaped by stole a small aircraft,a Cessna 182, and flew to the mainland. It is believed that he learned how to fly small planes by reading aircraft manuals, handbooks, watching a "How to fly a small airplane" DVD, and playing flight simulator computer games