Bent Sølve accident
Beechcraft Travel Air
From Fornebu to Linköping
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
- 6 · 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
- 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
- Unknown
Beechcraft Travel Air
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft TRAVEL AIR
- 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-NPO
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 6
- Route
- From FornebuTo Linköping
Approximate · Estimated position: Drammen, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Bent Sølve accident was an air accident in 1969 in which five of the six members of Bent Sølve's pop orchestra were killed.
The aircraft was a former Vestfold Frakt aircraft, a Beechcraft Travel Air (LN NPO) It took off from Fornebu at 13.31 on 1 May 1969 and was bound for Linköping. The pilot turned back at 14.18 due to bad weather. Just before landing it went into a spin at Holmen in Drammen. It hit the ground and made a jump of 30 metres before coming to rest. The last message to the control tower was that an engine had stopped. The aircraft disappeared from the radar screens at 14.59.
Everyone on board was killed, including the pilot, the singer Vigdis Mostad from Orkanger, the three Molde musicians Bjørn Solstad, Svein Jens Thorsø and Geir Schumann, and Kåre Furuholmen from Oslo. This was witnessed by, among others, Morten Harket.Mikkel Flagstad was also supposed to take part in the concert in Linköping, but he had a fear of flying and wanted to drive to Sweden instead. He was therefore not on board the aircraft when it crashed.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Norwegian Wikipedia article “Bent Sølves-ulykken” (revision 24533335, 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: Bent Sølves-ulykken
- Article
- Bent Sølves-ulykken
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 24533335 · 2024-06-23 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q17750143
- 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 "Bent Sølves-ulykken" (page 674522, revision 24533335), 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
- not stated in the Wikipedia article's infobox or opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
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.