 11, F.342, was among the first Norwegian units to make contact with the invasion forces.On 8 April 1940 Lieutenants Kaare Strand Kjos and Magnus Lie of the Trøndelag Naval District were dispatched to the Kornstadfjord near Lyngstad in Eide where a German Arado Ar 196 had made an emergency landing.After the two German pilots, Oberleutnant Werner Techam and Leutnant Hans Polzin, had approached the locals trying to purchase fuel for their airplane they were captured by a group of civilians.