Einar Birkeland from the farm near by, guided us to the crash site.

The Junkers was loaded with gasoline barrels, not a good combination on impact with solid rock.

Until some years ago, the tail-section was lying on the small rocky beach, but today only small fragments are left. Most parts of the aircraft disappeared into sea in a storm in 2000.

photo M.Moe

Junkers Ju 52/3mg4e Kvamen, Sokndal Rogaland

14.Staffel. IV./KGr.zbV l. 1Z+IY WNr.6306 16.04 1940

A Ju52 with fuel-barrels intended for Sola,crashed into a cliff at the shore in Regeviga near Birkeland
a bit east of Egersund. The plane was belonging to a group of planes that came from Ålborg.
Some of them returned to Denmark due to bad weather, while this one ended here
.
Pilot Fldw.Bernhard Kalthöner. Gfr.Ludwig Landstorfer. Uffz.Karl Opitz. Uffz.Peter Richter.
All died in crash and are buried at Alfaset. 13 passengers also died in crash.

picture from eBay
02.07 2003 © kjell sørensen