Avia S-199 - Letkov, Czech Republic
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N 49° 43.885 E 013° 27.673
33U E 389109 N 5509905
A place of a Avia S-199 crash.
Waymark Code: WMT5G3
Location: Plzeňský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 09/29/2016
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About Avia S-199
The Avia S-199 is a propeller-driven fighter aircraft built after World War II, notable as the first fighter obtained by the Israeli Air Force, and used during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
Constructed in Czechoslovakia, with parts and plans left over from Luftwaffe aircraft production, the aircraft had numerous problems and was generally unpopular with its pilots. Czechoslovak pilots nicknamed it Mezek ("Mule"), while in Israel it was officially known as the Sakeen ("knife" in Hebrew). In practice, the aircraft was more often called Messerschmitt or Messer (which also means "knife", in German and Yiddish).
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About crash
CZ: Behem návratu z výškového letu dal velitel ctyrclenné formace ve výšce 450m pokyn ke zmene sestavy z klínu do sestavy stupnovité vlevo. Ppor Rendl letící jako c.2 mel pri zmene snížit rychlost, dostat se dve délky vzad a se snížením o 15 metru proti formaci se mel presunout na pozici zcela vlevo. Namísto toho se dostal pod letoun letící na pozici c. 3. Potom zacal ppor. Rendl z neznámého duvodu mírne stoupat a narazil zespodu do levého krídla letounu npor. Šefla. Letoun ppor. Rendla prišel nárazem o výškové kormidlo a dostal se do spirály. Pilot se snažil ze stroje vyskocit, pro malou výšku se mu to ale již nepodarilo. Letoun dopadl tesne za obytné stavení v obci Letkov, pilot na míste zahynul.
EN: PO Frantisek Rendl flying as No. 2 of the four-member band had to change to reduce speed to get two lengths back, and with a reduction of 15 meters against the formation was to move to the far left position. Instead, he came under aircraft flying at position No. 3. Then he began from unknown reason slight rise and crashed into the bottom of the left wing of the lieutenant Sefl. The aircraft of PO Rendl came impact on the elevator and got into a spiral. The pilot tried to jump out of the machine, but for low altitude he did not succeed. The aircraft landed just behind the farmhouse in the village Letkov, the pilot died on the spot.