Aerial suicide incidents anywhere

[Adrian Roberts]

The WW2 Canadian Air VC was Andrew Mynarski, of Polish descent; the date was 12/6/44.

I'm sure that I read somewhere that a man jumped from a burning Zeppelin, fell through the roof of a convent, landed in a bed that a nun had just vacated & survived!

This was a crewman of LZ37, the airship brought down by Warneford near Ghent on 7/6/15. Hope the nun didn't get into trouble with the Mother Superior.

I'm not sure if that's accurate & if there are any cases of Zeppelin crewmen staying with the burning airship & surviving.

Three men survived the crash of the L48 by staying with the ship.

[Gibbo]

Thanks for the informatin on Zeppelin survivors.

Andrew Mynarski was one of the VC winners featured in the recent Channel 4 TV series.

[Dolphin]

This was a crewman of LZ37, the airship brought down by Warneford near Ghent on 7/6/15.

Obersteurmann Alfred Mühler was the lucky man who survived the loss of the LZ37 after falling into a nun's bed.

Gareth

[Adrian Roberts]

..and the L48 survivors were:

Leutnant zur See Otto Miethe - the airship's second in command

Obermaschinistenmaat Heinrich Ellerkamm

Obermaschinistenmaat Wilhelm Uecker.

The Obermaschinistenmaats - roughly equivalent to an Engine Room Artificer in the Royal Navy - would probably have been in the engine cars, so slightly more distant from the flames. Uecker died in the flu pandemic at the end of the war.