ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 339590
| Date: | Tuesday 29 August 1944 |
| Time: | 00:30 |
| Type: |  Lockheed C-60A-5-LO Lodestar |
| Owner/operator: | British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC |
| Registration: | G-AGIH |
| MSN: | 18-2619 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 15 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Mount Kinnekulle, NE of Lidköping -
 Sweden
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Stockholm-Bromma Airport (BMA/ESSB) |
| Saint Andrews-Leuchars RAF Station (ADX/EGQL) |
The flight was enroute from Stockholm-Bromma (BMA) to Leuchars, Scotland . It crashed into hilly terrain in bad weather after being directed to either Såtenäs or Torslanda at Gothenburg, Sweden, because of radio and navigation problems.
Three crew and 12 passengers were on board, all Norwegian. Four passengers survived.
The airplane was given to the Norwegian government in exile as a part of the lend-lease agreement. It was operate by BOAC due to the German occupation of Norway.
Sources:
luftfartshistorie.no
mil.no
The Lockheed Twins / Peter J Marson
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