Munich piloted by Flugkapitän August Karl Künstle with five crew members and 16 passengers. The Condor reached Munich safely, but never appeared in Spain. Extensive contemporary inquiries in Germany, Switzerland and Spain about its fate were fruitless. In 1954, evidence was discovered that the overloaded transport crashed and burned with no survivors near Piesenkofen Kreis Mühlberg, Bavaria. A German source gives 1952 as the year that "Hessens crash was confirmed. Consolidated B-24J-1-FO Liberator 42-95592 "Black Cat" of the 784th Bomb Squadron 466th Bomb Group based at RAF Attlebridge (USAAF Station 120), returning from a mission to bomb a rail bridge in Salzburg, aborted due to bad weather over the target and was hit by flak burst in its port wing near Regensburg. The last 8 AF heavy bomber lost over Germany during World War II, it was the only loss of the mission. The plane's bombardier and tail gunner escaped the aircraft and were captured; the other ten crew members were killed. 23 April United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Boeing B-17G-90-BO Flying Fortress 43-38856 (coded "GD-M") of the 534th Bombardment Squadron, 381st Bombardment Group (Heavy) crashed on the east-facing slope of North Barrule on the Isle of Man killing 31 US service personnel (including ground crew) en route from RAF Ridgewell (USAAF Station 167) to RAF Nutts Corner in Belfast for a memorial service for Franklin D. Roosevelt. 26 April During a training exercise, Boeing B-17G-90-BO Flying Fortress 43-38859 collided in mid-air with another Fortress, B-17G-75-VE 44-8687. The former plane crash-landed and was repaired; the latter was destroyed, with only two crew members surviving. 28 April Douglas A-26C-25-DT Invader 43-22644, assigned to the 611 Base Unit at Wright Field, Ohio, crashed into Choctawhatchee Bay northeast of Fort Walton, Florida after being struck by a test Speedee (Highball) bouncing bomb which tore off its tail; the bomber nosed over into the water. It had taken off from Eglin Field, Florida, on a low-level bombing exercise at AAF water range Number 60 (south of Lake Lorraine). All three occupants were killed. 29 April North American AT-6D-NT trainer 42-84963, c.n. 88-16744, of the 2002d Base Unit, piloted by West Point Cadet Robert B. Clark, crashed into Bramley Mountain southeast of the Town of Bovina, Delaware County, New York, (in the Catskill Mountains) due to weather. The Binghamton Press reported on 1 May 1945 that "the young flier was on a routine night