Drangedal accident
Fred. Olsen Airtransport Douglas C-47 Skytrain · Navigational error
From Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) to Jarlsberg Airfield (ENJB)
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
- 18
- 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
- Airline
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
- Aircraft type
- Douglas C-47
- 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
- LN-NAD
- Operator
- Fred. Olsen Airtransport
- Onboard fatalities
- 11
- Route
- From Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)To Jarlsberg Airfield (ENJB)
Approximate · Estimated position: Drangedal, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Drangedal accident was an air accident that occurred on 5 May 1952 when a Dakota aircraft of Fred. Olsens Flyselskap crashed in Drangedal in Telemark.
The aircraft was coming from Amsterdam Airport Schipool, on a so-called seamen's charter, and was on approach to Tønsberg Airport, Jarlsberg outside Tønsberg. The aircraft went off course and crashed on Siljefjell (416 m above sea level).
On board were 25 passengers, all whalers on their way home after the end of an expedition in the Southern Ocean, and a crew of four: two pilots, a radio operator and a stewardess. Eight passengers and three of the crew members lost their lives, while the stewardess was among the survivors.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Norwegian Wikipedia article “Drangedal-ulykken” (revision 24728434, 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: Drangedal-ulykken
- Article
- Drangedal-ulykken
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 24728434 · 2024-10-10 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q11966034
- 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 "Drangedal-ulykken" (page 520972, revision 24728434), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- 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 is an airline 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.