Accident description
Last updated: 18 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 26 SEP 1970 |
| Type: | Fokker F-27 Friendship 300 |
| Operator: | Icelandair Flugfélag Islands |
| Registration: | TF-FIL |
| C/n / msn: | 10356 |
| First flight: | 1968 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 5419 |
| Cycles: | 3390 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 30 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 34 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Vagar, Faroe Islands (Denmark)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | International Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Bergen-Flesland Airport (BGO/ENBR), Norway |
| Faroe Islands-Vagar Airport (FAE/EKVG), Denmark |
The aircraft crashed into a mountain at 1500 feet while descending after holding for 20 minutes at the MY beacon.
Sources:
» Willem Wendt
» Eugene Register-Guard - Sep 27, 1970
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Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Bergen-Flesland Airport to Faroe Islands-Vagar Airport as the crow flies is 692 km (432 miles).
Distance from Bergen-Flesland Airport to Faroe Islands-Vagar Airport as the crow flies is 692 km (432 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
