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| Date: | Tuesday 22 January 1957 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: |  Republic RC-3 Seabee |
| Owner/operator: | Vestlandske Luftfartselskap |
| Registration: | LN-PAM |
| MSN: | 644 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Leirvik, Stord -
 Norway
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Ambulance |
| Departure airport: | Stord (Leirvik) |
| Bergen (Sandviken) | |
| Investigating agency: | Flyhavarikommisjon |
| Confidence Rating: |  Little or no information is available |
Crashed.
There's no explicit Probable Cause statement in the report, but the following conclusions are worth noting:
6.3. The commission assumes that the direct cause of the accident was that the aircraft struck a floating object which tore open the aircraft's bottom and caused the aircraft to go around.
6.5. Taking all circumstances into consideration, the commission does not find it possible to maintain that the pilot made decisions that directly caused the accident. The commission has not been able to form any definite conclusion regarding the question of whether the accident could have been avoided if the aircraft's landing light had been in working order.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
Norwegian Civil Aircraft since 1919 / K. Hagby, 1980 (ISBN 0 904597 2 7)
https://havarikommisjonen.no/Luftfart/Luftfart/Avgitte-rapporter/1957-03?pid=SHT-Report-ReportFile&attach=1
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Mar-2008 13:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 11-Jul-2009 10:05 | Gaute Strøm | Updated |
| 15-Sep-2017 19:53 | TB | Updated [Time, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, ] |
| 14-Jul-2025 07:30 | HanayoPlus | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
| 14-Jul-2025 07:30 | ASN | Updated [Accident report, ] |
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