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 the mountain Kvammetinden about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) north of the village of Lødingen in Lødingen Municipality in Nordland county, Norway.^[1]

Kvitbjørn disaster

A Short Sandringham similar to the accident aircraft
Accident
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 flying boat flew into the side of the mountain at an altitude of 290 meters en route from Harstad to Bodø, the two stopovers between its origin Tromsø Airport and destination Oslo.^[1] 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.