Accident SAAB 91A Safir SE-BFT,
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Date:Monday 31 May 1948
Time:
Type:Silhouette image of generic SB91 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
SAAB 91A Safir
Owner/operator:Bergslagens Flyg
Registration: SE-BFT
MSN: 91.124
Fatalities:Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:10 km V Skillingaryd -   Sweden
Phase: En route
Nature:Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:Gustavsvik, Örebro
Destination airport:London, UK
Confidence Rating: Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources
Narrative:
Propably lost orientation in clouds (fog), witness heard the enginge rev up, saw one wing falling from a cloud, the engine stop and the rest of the plane, in a steep angle crash into the forrest.
Pilot Tage Ståhlenberg, passenger Gösta Norlander and Jarl Skafte was killed in the crash.

Tage Ståhlenberg had, as a Lieutenant in British RAF flewn 127 missions during ww2 and saved himself with a parachute twice.

Sources:

1. http://www.vedevag.se/flyg.htm
2. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tage_St%C3%A5hlenberg

Revision history:

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22-May-2011 13:23 Masen63 Added

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