Mechelen incident

When

10 Jan 1940

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

50.97° N, 5.72° E

Description

1940 event during the Phoney War in the first stages of World War II

Event during the Phoney War in the first stages of World War II

The Mechelen incident of 10 January 1940, also known as the Mechelen affair, took place in Belgium during the Phoney War in the first stages of World War II. A German aircraft with an officer on board carrying the plans for Fall Gelb, the German attack on the Low Countries, crash-landed in neutral Belgium near Vucht in the modern-day municipality of Maasmechelen (Mechelen-aan-de-Maas) within the Province of Limburg.

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• Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: Mechelen incident – A German plane carrying secret plans for the invasion of Western Europe makes a forced landing in Belgium, leading to mobilization of…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Der deutsche Major Helmut Reinberger transportiert befehlswidrig die von Hitler ausgearbeiteten Pläne für den am 17. Januar geplanten Fall Gelb per Flugzeug”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “incident de Mechelen”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Cerca de la antigua ciudad de Vucht, ahora llamada Maasmechelen (Bélgica) se estrella un avión alemán de enlace Messerschmitt Bf 108 (Incidente Mechelen) con…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page