Kvitbjørn disaster
1947 aviation accident
 A Short Sandringham similar to the accident aircraft | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 28 August 1947 |
| Summary | Controlled flight into terrain |
| Site | Lødingsfjellet, Hinnøy, Norway |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Shorts S.25 Sandringham 6 |
| Operator | Det Norske Luftfartsselskap (DNL) |
| Registration | LN-IAV |
| Flight origin | Tromsø |
| 1st stopover | Harstad |
| 2nd stopover | Bodø |
| Destination | Oslo |
| Passengers | 28 |
| Crew | 7 |
| Fatalities | 35 |
| Survivors | 0 |
The Kvitbjørn disaster occurred on 28 August 1947 when, in heavy fog, the Norwegian Air Lines Short Sandringham flying boat Kvitbjørn, registered LN-IAV, hit a mountain close to Lødingsfjellet in Lødingen, southern Tjeldsundet, Norway.[1]
The flying boat crashed en route from Harstad to Bodø, the two stopovers between its origin Tromsø and destination Oslo. All thirty-five people on board (twenty-eight passengers and a crew of seven) perished, making the crash the deadliest in Norwegian aviation at that time.
References
- ^ "Sandringham LN-IAV". Aviation-Safety.net. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110724180209/http://www.isorreisa.no/i/art.php?art=10147
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080922220551/http://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/lodingen.html
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Includes Svalbard and Jan Mayen
- Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition (July 1897)
- Italia (May 1928)
- Havørn Accident (June 1936)
- British European Airways Flight 530 (August 1946)
- Kvitbjørn disaster (August 1947)
- Bukken Bruse disaster (October 1948)
- Hurum air disaster (November 1949)
- Bjørnøya Accident (March 1954)
- Braathens SAFE Flight 253 (November 1956)
- Holtaheia Vickers Viking crash (August 1961)
- Braathens SAFE Flight 239 (December 1972)
- Helikopter Service Flight 165 (June 1978)
- Widerøe Flight 933 (March 1982)
- Braathens SAFE Flight 139 (June 1985)
- Finnair Flight 915 (December 1987)
- Widerøe Flight 710 (May 1988)
- Widerøe Flight 839 (April 1990)
- Widerøe Flight 744 (October 1993)
- Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 347 (November 1994)
- Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 (August 1996)
- Hemus Air Flight 7081 (September 1996)
- Helikopter Service Flight 451 (September 1997)
- Kato Air Flight 605 (September 2004)
- Atlantic Airways Flight 670 (October 2006)
- CHC Helikopter Service Flight 241 (April 2016)
- Alta helicopter crash (August 2019)
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