BF507
Crashes > of the R.A.F.
The Stirling III, BF507 took part in a bombing raid on Wuppertal. Coming from a north-westerly direction, the aircraft flew over Dormagen in gliding flight. It had already been hit by anti-aircraft fire and lost parts of the fuselage and wings in flight. In the south of Dormagen, near the PFEIFER & LANGEN sugar factory, it hit an open field about 80 metres east of the Dormagen-Cologne road and exploded violently.
Only one crew member was found a few hundred metres from the crash site on the grounds of the WEGENER shoemaking factory. With his parachute in tatters, he had crashed onto the gable of a house in Nettergasse and fallen from there onto the pavement in front of the gate entrance. It could only be recovered dead. (see map)
Only a few small body parts of the remaining crew were found after the explosion. These were buried with the recovered crew member as "unknown dead" in Cologne's South Cemetery.