F-104G KE+405, code for Messerschmitt factory test flight

construction number 683D-7105, model 683-10-19, built by Messerschmitt
assembly start at Messerschmitt-Manching July 11, 1963, first flight September 23, 1963 coded KE+405
camouflage scheme TA-196 "Norm 62", delivery date November 12, 1963, LwVersRgt 3 on November 18, 1963 for system upgrade
DA+254 JaboG 31 on March 18, 1964
crashed on December 6, 1965 near Narvik, Norway due to engine flame-out (no more fuel) after take off from Nörvenich AB
pilot got incapacitated due to lack of oxygen, pilot was killed, struck off charge order February 9, 1967

Take off time 17.09 Nörvenich AB, heading North at approx. 40.000 ft on autopilot, after 11 min all radio contact was lost, crash time 19.41
crashed at Emmenes, Ankenes, just 4 km south west of Narvik, Norway after running out of fuel.
First intercepted in Denmark by two F-100, then intercepted by two F-104G from 331 Sqn Bodø,
they flew very close to DA+254 so the lights were lightening up the cockpit to the pilot, the pilot was unconscious or dead due to lack of oxygen

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