Gråtådalen air accident
US Marine Corps (USMC) Bell–Boeing V-22 Osprey · Pilot error
From an unrecorded airport to Bodø Airport (BOO)
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
- 4 · 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
Bell–Boeing V-22 Osprey
- Aircraft type
- Bell–boeing V-22
- Category
- Powered-Lift · 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
- Unknown
- Operator
- US Marine Corps (USMC)
- Onboard fatalities
- 4
- Route
- From not recordedTo Bodø Airport (BOO)
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
- Personnel issues › Task performance
- Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Beiarn Municipality, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Gråtådalen air accident took place on 18 March 2022 in Beiarn Municipality. The aircraft was a Bell Boeing V-22B Osprey military transport aircraft of the United States Marine Corps (USMC). The accident happened during the NATO exercise Cold Response.
The accident
The aircraft, with a crew of four, took off from Bodø and was to carry out a training flight before returning to Bodø. When the aircraft did not return at the planned time, it was reported missing. Findings were made on the ground in Gråtådalen the same evening. The wreck was located by a rescue helicopter. The initial investigations at the site were carried out by the Accident Investigation Board Norway and Kripos. On 24 March the public prosecutor in Nordland approved the US military's request to take over responsibility for the investigations.
Investigation and cause
Cause
On 14 August the USMC concluded that low-level flying had taken place in which the pilot made a left turn of 68°, followed by a right turn of 80°, while the aircraft was designed for a maximum 60° turn, and the pilot lost control of the aircraft. The low-level flying in Gråtådalen was not part of the planned and approved route for that day's flight.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Norwegian Wikipedia article “Flyulykken i Gråtådalen” (revision 24079166, 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: Flyulykken i Gråtådalen
- Article
- Flyulykken i Gråtådalen
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 24079166 · 2023-11-26 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q111723519
- 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 "Flyulykken i Gråtådalen" (page 2020845, revision 24079166), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata 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 named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- 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.