Focke-Wulf Fw 200-C4 Condor Kvanntoneset, Lavangen

III./7./KG 40 WNr.0163 F8+ES 11.10 1944

Took off from Banak at 07.10 and landed 45 minutes later at Kaamaanen in Finland where they fetched 34 passengers. After landing at Banak again, 15 more passengers, mainly Lw.Helferinen were loaded on board. The Condor now took off for Værnes, Trondheim with a crew of five and fourty six passengers, but at 12.45 above Lavangen, the tail broke off from the heavily loaded Condor and it crashed into the fjord with the loss of all 51 on board. 41 bodies were later recovered from the sea.
sources: "Flyalarm". Article by Ulf Larsstuvold in "Flyhistorie" Nr.20

24.06 2011 ©kjell sørensen
NVM's via hannu valtonen
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Lavangsfjorden 24.06 2011 ©kjell sørensen

Crew:
1.FF Lt.Hans Gilbert. 2.FF Oberfw.Gert Jochums. 1.Bordfunker Oberfw.Martin Hochmuth. BM Fw.Hubert Langguth. BS Fw.Hans Prahl. 2.Bordfunker Uffz.Hubert Ott was left at Banak which saved his life.

Passengers:
Hauptmann/Maj.Franz Krenn and Obering.D.Lw.Bömike (Benecke?)
Stab/Flak Regt.93 Hauptmann Eduard Clement.
SS-Rottenführer Emil Widmer.
Kriegsmarine Obermaat Eugen Däumichen.

Stabshilferin Passengers:
Edith Allihn. Erika Busack. Anny Chalupnik. Irmgard Dorth. Gerda Fiebke. Irmgard Friedrich. Anna Glaser. Ruth Griebsch. Elsbeth Grommisch. Anna Göring. Barbara Hill. Elisabeth Hoffmann. Emma Hoffmann. Theresia Hoffmann. Irmgard Karp. Hildegard Krause. Edith Krüger. Ingeborg Kruschewitz. Margrete Leuschner. Charlotte Nickel. Lieselotte Oeffner. Eveline Peters. Franziska Ruhl. Anni Schima. Charlotte Schmidt. Erika Schöne. Hildegard Siegler. Irma Sorgatz. Angela Trenz. Emma Wagner. Gunda Weber. Elisabeth Wiesenhütter. Marianne Seidel. Christel Stappen. Elsbeth Streletzki. Margarete Seibert. Brunhilde Otto. Ilse Otto. Anneliese Ebert. Hilda Röstel. Gertrud Staeglich.
passenger list via ulf larsstuvold

According to info via Larsstuvold, the crew belonged to 8.Staffel, not 7.Staffel as written in the NVM.

41 are buried at Narvik New Cemetery, the rest are still missing.

photo via V-P Paatero