Kvitbjørn disaster
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]
 A Short Sandringham similar to the accident aircraft | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 28 August 1947 |
| Summary | Controlled flight into terrain |
| Site | Lødingsfjellet, Hinnøy, Norway |
| 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 |
| Injuries | 0 |
| Survivors | 0 |
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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