Replica Focke Wulf 190 crashed today?

I just saw some posts on another site and it said the 190s haven’t flown yet….and the owner of the company building them died in Sept so the building process has slowed down. On top of this the poster said the aircraft have not been approved to fly yet. Add to the fact that Worms is not in Bavaria and is as you say quite some distance (which it is as I’ve been to Germany twice) I think it is highly unlikely this was one of the Flugwerke aeroplanes.

John

Might it have been one of those WAR Fw190’s?Just a thought…

There are at least two of those in Germany, so that’s not unlikely. I’m also wondering what a Flugwerk FW190 would be doing so far away from its homebase (supposing it has already flown, something which nobody has been able to confirm yet).

Might it have been one of those WAR Fw190’s?Just a thought…

http://www.swr.de/nachrichten/bw/mannheim/index.html#meldung3

Hockenheim

Kleinflugzeug stürzte ab

In der Nähe von Hockenheim ist gestern Nachmittag ein Kleinflugzeug abgestürzt und zerschellt. Der Pilot der einmotorigen Maschine konnte sich mit dem Fallschirm retten. Der 44-jährige war in Worms gestartet und hatte Probleme mit der Steuerung bekommen. Aus rund 2.000 Metern Höhe sprang er mit dem Fallschirm ab und landete auf dem Satteldach eines Aussiedlerhofs. Die Flugzeug-Trümmer wurden sichergestellt.

Basically it says a single engine machine crashed because of controlproblems and the pilot saved himself with his parachute.
The plane took off from ‘Worms’.
I heard this story on the SWR 1 radiostation and they said it was a FW190….

Next time maybe you can give a guy the benefit of the doubt although nothing is posted on the ‘oh so great german flugzeugforum’.

Often those Piachio P149ns are referred too as Fw’s, as are those 1/2 scale ones. Maybe it was one of those if there ever was something down. The location was wrong also, as the Flugwerk ones are located at Manching near Munich, while Hockenheim is in a different part of Germany, and I don’t believe that they should fly that large a distance on one of the first flights. I understand from their site that the aircraft is/are now certified, so let’s hope they will be welcomed in the show circuit this year. BW Roger

Thanks Roger, that’s the conclusion I’ve come to as well. Nothing on WIX, BBC, Sky or any of the German news sites. All’s well that ends well.

Just checked the German “Flugzeugforum” (www.flugzeugforum.de the German version of this forum, but a lot bigger) and there was nothing. So I am quite sure that it is a false alarm. BW Roger

No, and I can’t locate any confirmation of this news. Don’t take this the wrong way 334_pegasus, but I think (and hope) that you may be wrong about this.

What radio station did you hear this on?