Lier accident 1960
North American F-86 Sabre · Collision during exercise
From Moss Airport, Rygge (ENRY) to an unrecorded destination
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
- Unknown
- Event fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 2
- 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
- 0
- 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
North American F-86 Sabre
- Aircraft type
- North American F-86
- 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
- Unknown
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Moss Airport, Rygge (ENRY)To not recorded
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The Lier accident was an air accident that took place in the airspace over Lier on 1 August 1960, when two Sabre jet aircraft collided during an exercise.
The aircraft were two of eight aircraft that had taken off from Rygge Air Station for an exercise. They collided at an altitude of 18,000 feet, and the pilots in both aircraft – one Canadian, the other Norwegian – had to eject by parachute. The Norwegian pilot, Second Lieutenant Trond Laake, who was part of 336 Squadron, mentioned a slightly sore back immediately after the incident, but apart from this the pilots escaped the accident without significant injuries. The Norwegian's aircraft impacted at Hennum, while the Canadian's aircraft impacted near Mehren. Despite the fact that the aircraft came down in built-up areas, and wreckage had fallen into people's gardens, no personal injuries were reported as a result of the aircraft hitting the ground.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Norwegian Wikipedia article “Lier-ulykken 1960” (revision 23789743, 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: Lier-ulykken 1960
- Article
- Lier-ulykken 1960
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 23789743 · 2023-08-29 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- 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 "Lier-ulykken 1960" (page 2096592, revision 23789743), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): Two Sabre jets from an air station collided during an exercise, one flown by a squadron lieutenant: a military flight. The article: "The Norwegian pilot, Second Lieutenant Trond Laake, who was part of 336 Squadron"
- 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.