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The ''Havørn'' Accident ((ノルウェー語:Havørn-ulykken)) was a controlled flight into terrain of a Junkers Ju 52 aircraft into the mountain Lihesten in Hyllestad, Norway on 16 June 1936 at 07:00. The aircraft, operated by Norwegian Air Lines, was en route from Bergen to Tromsø. The pilots were unaware that they were flying a parallel to the planned course, further east. The crew of four and three passengers were all killed in what was the first fatal aviation accident in Norway. The aircraft landed on a shelf on the mountain face. A first expedition found four bodies, but attempts to reach the shelf with the main part of the aircraft and three more bodies failed. A second party was sent out two days later, coordinated by Bernt Balchen and led by Boye Schlytter and Henning Tønsberg, saw the successful salvage of the remaining bodies. ==Accident== The air service between Bergen and Tromsø was started by Norwegian Air Lines on 7 June 1936.〔Nordstrand (2006): 84〕 It was operated with ''Havørn'', a Junkers Ju 52, registration LN-DAE, which had been bought from Deutsche Lufthansa. On 16 June 1936 at 06:30 Central European Time, the flight departed from the water aerodrome in Sandviken, Bergen. On board was a crew of four and three passengers,〔Nordstrand (2006): 83〕 and a load of 13 bags of of post.〔Nordstrand (2006): 86〕 The aircraft's captain was Ditlev Pentz Smith. Aged 27, he had started flying for the Norwegian Army Air Service in 1930, and later become a civilian pilot for Widerøe. He was considered one of the country's most renowned pilots and was active with competition flights. He was assisted by First Officer Erik Storm, aged 32, who had a background from the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service.〔Nordstrand (2006): 94〕 The reserve pilot was Peter Ruth Paasche, aged 21, and the radio operator was Per Erling Hegle, aged 28 and a trained mechanic.〔Nordstrand (2006): 95〕 All four had been chosen to regularly fly the Bergen–Tromsø route.〔〔 The three passengers were Inspector Sven Svensen Løgit, Consul Wilhelm Andreas Mejdell Dall〔Nordstrand (2006): 96〕 and journalist Harald Wigum of ''Bergens Tidende''.〔Nordstrand (2006): 97〕 The weather report, which had been delivered orally by meteorologist-on-duty of the Forecasting Division of Western Norway at the airport,〔Nordstrand (2006): 88〕 stated wind from southeast at , overcast and clouds down to , although it could be even lower certain places. The visibility was .〔 The last radio contact between the aircraft and the airport in Bergen was at 06:54, when Hegle reported clouds at elevation and between visibility. He reported that the aircraft held a course towards Krakhellesundet, which was procedure during such weather conditions, and that the aircraft was south of Sognesjøen.〔 However, the aircraft was not where the pilots thought it was—instead it was further east.〔 Eyewitnesses reported that after it had crossed Sognefjorden, it had changed course westward and started to ascend. At 07:00, a loud crash was heard, although there were no eyewitnesses to the crash itself. The aircraft had followed a parallel, but more eastern, course and had hit Lihesten, a mountain rising up from Lifjorden, at above mean sea level.〔 The aircraft caught fire and was highly visible from the surrounding area. Parts of the aircraft fell to the foot of the mountain, and the wreckage was scattered across the base of the mountain.〔Nordstrand (2006): 85〕 The controlled flight into terrain was the first fatal aviation accident in Norway.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Havørn Accident」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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