Kvitbjørn disaster

*Kvitbjørn* disaster
Accident summary
Date	28 August 1947
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain
Site	Lødingsfjellet, Hinnøy, Norway
Passengers	28
Crew	7
Injuries (non-fatal)	0
Fatalities	35 (all)
Survivors	0
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

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

Aviation accidents and incidents in Norway

S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition (Svalbard 1897) Italia (Svalbard 1928) Havørn (1936) British European Airways Flight 530 (Mistberget 1946) Kvitbjørn (1947) Bukkene Bruse (1948) Hurum (1949) Bjørnøya (1954) Braathens SAFE Flight 253 (Hummelfjell 1956) Hotlaheia (1961) Braathens SAFE Flight 239 (Asker 1972) Helikopter Service Flight 165 (North Sea 1978) Widerøe Flight 933 (Mehamn 1982) Braathens SAFE Flight 139 (1985) Finnair Flight 915 (Edgeøya 1987) Widerøe Flight 710 (Torghatten 1988) Widerøe Flight 839 (Værøy 1990) Widerøe Flight 744 (Namsos 1993) Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 347 (1994) Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 (Operafjellet 1996) Hemus Air Flight 7081 (1996) Helikopter Service Flight 451 (1997) Atlantic Airways Flight 670 (Stord 2006)

Accident Investigation Board Norway

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Jan 25 Croydon Dakota accident
Jan 26 KLM Copenhagen accident
Feb 15 Avianca Douglas DC-4 crash
May 29 United Airlines Flight 521
May 30 Eastern Air Lines Flight 605
Jun 13 Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 410
Jun 19 Pan Am Flight 121
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Aug 2 BSAA "Star Dust" accident
Aug 28 "Kvitbjørn" disaster
Oct 24 United Airlines Flight 608
Oct 26 Pan Am Flight 923
Dec 27 Korangi Creek crash

Coordinates: 68°25′59″N 15°59′43″E / 68.43306°N 15.99528°E / 68.43306; 15.99528

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