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 the monutain Kvammetinden about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) north of the village of Lødingen in Lødingen Municipality in Nordland county, Norway.[1]
Accident | |
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Date | 28 August 1947 |
Summary | Controlled flight into terrain |
Site | Lødingen, Hinnøya, 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 flying boat crashed en route from Harstad to Bodø, the two stopovers between its origin Tromsø Airport 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
edit- ^ "Sandringham LN-IAV". Aviation-Safety.net. Retrieved 24 May 2009.