June 10, 2005 at 10:00 am
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
a full member of CRASH40-45 Crash Research in Aviation Society Holland (http://www.crash40-45.nl), I am currently investigating a mysterious accident that occured between the late 1940s and the early 1950s. In Northern Germany the remains of an aircraft were found. The aluminium remains, although bend and battered, clearly showed the following marks/stencils:
* AGS 1103/E
* C 5534
The C 5534 was stamped into the metal and is surrounded by a thin oval line; usually indicating the part to be of British origin.
As far as we are concerned, we believe that a British twin seat jet aircraft crashed into a field in Northern Germany between 1946 and the early 1950s, killing both men flying the aircraft. Due to the fairly swampy crash site, the aircraft submerged and could not be retrieved until today. So to say, most probably both men´s remains are still trapped inside.
So far we did not publish the crash site and did not attempt to excavate anything on the crash site, since first we want to know what type of aircraft could have crashed there. A local farmer told us that a priest celebrated a mess shortly after the crash and that two wooden crosses were set up at the spot of impact, yet these had been removed in the late 1950s.
Could you eventually translate the codes into an aircraft manufacturer or could any of the members in this forum eventually provide us with further infos to identify these two men who vanished shortly after takeoff from Lubeck aerodrome? Could the aircraft have been an early twinseat Gloster Meteor trainer?
Thanks in advance and have a nice day,
Nervenklau