DC: A German Bf-109 crashed Tuesday in Los Angeles, and the video is wild.
The plane slammed down Tuesday afternoon on the 101 Highway in Agoura Hills — just outside L.A. — and went up in flames. Somehow, the pilot managed to avoid any cars on the freeway, and reportedly got it down cleanly … until one of the wings clipped the center divider. That’s when the fuel ignited.
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The pilot was the only person on board, and was somehow uninjured.
Not a BF-109 but a FW-190. Radial engine.
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Not a 109, it’s a kit application for a newer aircraft.
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Tony R’s correct, looks like a Focke-Wulf
hopefully, a repro
It’s actually a vintage American T-6 trainer but with German markings (per a local reporter friend who contacted the organization that owns the plane).
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Bermuda Triangle?
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Sorry, but from the landing Video’s the nose look is ALL wrong for a German Bf-109…. Google images of BF-109 it a see.
It looks more like a Grumman Hellcat F6F just painted with German emblems.
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@Left Coast Dan – You’re right. That aircraft is not any German made WWII warbird just from the look of the nose cowling.
Bluto: Hey! What’s all this laying around shit?
Stork: What the hell are we supposed to do, ya moron?
D-Day: [to Bluto] War’s over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: What? Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: [to Boon] Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he’s rolling.
Bluto: And it ain’t over now. ‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough…
[thinks hard of something to say]
Bluto: The tough get goin’! Who’s with me? Let’s go!
@F4U ~ on closer inspection, that cowing does look shorter than a FW-109’s
T-6 or an SNJ with German markings. Look at the landing gear door and the cuff on the wing root.
Hope the occupant(s) got out safely.
It’s a WW2 US trainer, most likely a North American T-6. Popular and (relatively) cheap warbird to own. These always show up in movies with German or Japanese markings (i.e. “Zero” fighters in Tora! Tora! Tora!). Actual flying examples of BF-109/ME-109 and FW-190 aircraft are as rare as hen’s teeth. Flyable Zeros are even more rare, and even most of those have American engines.
Look at the left wing tip flap. It’s definitely a NA T6.
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Heading back to Germany from the raid on Pearl Harbor?