Shooting down of an RAF aircraft near Němčičky
Royal Air Forces Vickers Welington Mk. X LP 204 · Attempted emergency landing > aircraft shot down by Luftwaffe units
From Foggia-Tortorella Base, Italy to Mineral oil refinery in Pardubice
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 5 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 5
- Survivors
- Unknown
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Vickers Welington Mk. X LP 204
- Aircraft type
- Vickers Welington MK LP-204
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- Unknown
- Operator
- Royal Air Forces
- Onboard fatalities
- 5
- Route
- From Foggia-Tortorella Base, ItalyTo Mineral oil refinery in Pardubice
Approximate · Estimated position: Němčičky (Znojmo District), near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The shooting down of the Vickers Wellington B Mk.X bomber on 21 July 1944 was an event that occurred on the territory of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia when the aircraft was returning from Pardubice, where its target was to bomb the David Fanto refinery for the production of mineral oils. On the way back the aircraft attempted an emergency landing from the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, across the Krumlov region, all the way across the Jevišovice region. While returning to base the aircraft was hit by fire from Wehrmacht night fighters, and at 00:15 near the village of Němčičky the aircraft crashed into a field, where it then created a large crater. None of the five-member crew survived.
The crew members belonged to No. 150 Squadron of the Royal Air Force.
Gendarmerie patrols closed off the area until the arrival of a clearance squad from Brno airport. German soldiers took three coffins with the remains of the airmen to Znojmo, where they had them buried on 26 July 1944.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Czech Wikipedia article “Sestřelení letounu RAF u Němčiček” (revision 25623200, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Czech Wikipedia article: Sestřelení letounu RAF u Němčiček
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 25623200 · 2026-01-24 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q130142867
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- cs Wikipedia article "Sestřelení letounu RAF u Němčiček" (page 1940598, revision 25623200), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Czech Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.