Kvitbjørn disaster - Misplaced Pages

1947 aviation accident

*Kvitbjørn* disaster
Accident
A Short Sandringham similar to the accident aircraft
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 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 mountain Kvammetinden about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) north of the village of Lødingen in Lødingen Municipality in Nordland county, Norway.

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

"Sandringham LN-IAV". Aviation-Safety.net. Retrieved 24 May 2009.

External links

v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in Norway
Includes Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Before 1940	Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition (July 1897) Italia (May 1928) Havørn Accident (June 1936)
1940s	British European Airways Flight 530 (August 1946) Kvitbjørn disaster (August 1947) Bukken Bruse disaster (October 1948) Hurum air disaster (November 1949)
1950s	Bjørnøya Accident (March 1954) Braathens SAFE Flight 253 (November 1956)
1960s	Holtaheia Vickers Viking crash (August 1961)
1970s	Braathens SAFE Flight 239 (December 1972) Helikopter Service Flight 165 (June 1978)
1980s	Widerøe Flight 933 (March 1982) Braathens SAFE Flight 139 (June 1985) Finnair Flight 915 (December 1987) Widerøe Flight 710 (May 1988)
1990s	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)
2000s	Kato Air Flight 605 (September 2004) Atlantic Airways Flight 670 (October 2006)
2010s	CHC Helikopter Service Flight 241 (April 2016) Alta helicopter crash (August 2019)

v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in 1947 (1947)
Jan 11 Stowting Dakota accidentJan 25 Croydon Dakota accidentJan 26 KLM Copenhagen disasterFeb 15 Avianca Douglas DC-4 crashMay 29 United Air Lines Flight 521May 29 Héðinsfjörður air crashMay 30 Eastern Air Lines Flight 605Jun 13 Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 410Jun 19 Pan Am Flight 121Jul 29 Yogyakarta Dakota accidentAug 2 BSAA Star Dust accidentAug 28 Kvitbjørn disasterOct 24 United Air Lines Flight 608Oct 26 Pan Am Flight 923Nov 28 General Leclerc's aviation accidentDec 27 Korangi Creek crash
1946 ◄ ► 1948

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1947 (1947)

Jan 11 Stowting Dakota accidentJan 25 Croydon Dakota accidentJan 26 KLM Copenhagen disasterFeb 15 Avianca Douglas DC-4 crashMay 29 United Air Lines Flight 521May 29 Héðinsfjörður air crashMay 30 Eastern Air Lines Flight 605Jun 13 Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 410Jun 19 Pan Am Flight 121Jul 29 Yogyakarta Dakota accidentAug 2 BSAA Star Dust accidentAug 28 Kvitbjørn disasterOct 24 United Air Lines Flight 608Oct 26 Pan Am Flight 923Nov 28 General Leclerc's aviation accidentDec 27 Korangi Creek crash

1946 ◄ ► 1948

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

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