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On May 4, all of JG-1's surviving He 162s were formed into a special consolidated "Einsatzgruppen (Special Action Group)", and when on May 5 the Germans agreed to a cease-fire all the He-162s were grounded. Erprobungskommando 162 fighters, which had been passed on to an operational unit under [[Adolf Galland]] a few weeks earlier, were all destroyed by their crews to keep the jets from falling into Allied hands. However, JG-1 cooperatively turned their He 162s over to the Allies, and examples of the fighter were then flown in the US, Britain, France, and the USSR.
The difficulties with the He 162 where mainly because it was rushed into production, not that it was an inherently bad design. One experienced Luftwaffe pilot who flew it called it a "first-class combat aircraft". Though a RAF pilot was killed in [[November]] [[1945]] when one of the tailfins broke off during
==Variants==
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