Facts: - allegiance: germany - death date: 1 november 1927 - commands: jasta 51 - awards: iron cross - birth date: 27 august 1896 - unit: fa 204 , jasta 20 - name: karl plauth - branch: aviation - birth place: munich , germany - rank: leutnant Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of karl plauth .
leutnant karl plauth was a world war i flying ace credited with 17 aerial victories .after being wounded during the battle of verdun , he transferred to flying service .after a stint in fa 204 , an artillery cooperation unit , he was assigned to fly a fokker d.vii with royal prussian jagdstaffel 20 on 14 june 1918 .plauth scored his first triumph on 9 july 1918 .a wound four days later did n't deter him from scoring again on the 31st .by 28 september , his tally stood at 10 , the point at which he became an '' Uberkanone '' , or '' big gun '' .the following day , he became the staffelfuhrer of royal prussian jasta 51 .as their leader , he shot down seven more enemy aircraft during october , 1918 , bringing his total to 17 .however , he was no killer ; he preferred to see his opponents survive .he was piloting the junkers a 32 , which he helped design , on a test flight on 2 november 1927 , when it failed to pull out of a loop .he died in the resultant crash .