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Forlandet accident

31 Aug 1967 · Svalbard

Aéronautique navale Bréguet 1150 Atlantic · Unknown

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Event

Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
Accident
Event fatalities
11 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
0
InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
Unknown
OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
Military

Bréguet 1150 Atlantic

Aircraft type
Bréguet 1150
Category
Airplane · from aircraft type
RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
39
Onboard fatalities
11
Route
From not recordedTo not recorded

Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.

From the Wikipedia article

The Forlandet accident occurred during the night of 31 August 1967 on Prins Karls Forland on Svalbard. A Breguet 1150 Atlantic of the French Navy flew into Methuenfjellet and crashed. The entire crew of 11 were killed.

The aircraft was taking part in a French-British NATO exercise. The aircraft was one of three that were to detect and "destroy" two submarines, the French "Narval" and the British "Olympus", in the waters west of Svalbard. There was strong secrecy around the exercise and the crash, and the Norwegian authorities were only informed around 12 hours after the crash.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Norwegian Wikipedia article “Forlandet-ulykken” (revision 20262318, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article

Sources

Norwegian Wikipedia article: Forlandet-ulykken
Article
Forlandet-ulykken
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
20262318 · 2020-03-10 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q56405203
Licence
Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
Record
no Wikipedia article "Forlandet-ulykken" (page 1522222, revision 20262318), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia infobox: date
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
Wikipedia article coordinates
Aircraft, operator and route
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
Operation
operator is an armed force according to Wikidata
Fatalities
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
Ground fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Summary
Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
  • Wikipedia · Facts from the Norwegian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.