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]

Kvitbjørn disaster

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

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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