Voksenkollen accident
Royal Canadian Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain · Controlled flight into terrain, as a result of freezing rain
From RAF Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England to Gardermoen
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
- 17 · 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
- 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
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
- KN413 / ODM-F
- Operator
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 17
- Route
- From RAF Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, EnglandTo Gardermoen
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The Voksenkoll accident was an air accident at Voksenkollåsen in Oslo on 18 December 1945. A Canadian military aircraft crashed, and of the 19 on board two survived. The cause of the accident was probably icing on the wings, with the resulting reduced lift of the wings.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Norwegian Wikipedia article “Voksenkoll-ulykken” (revision 25510758, 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: Voksenkoll-ulykken
- Article
- Voksenkoll-ulykken
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 25510758 · 2025-12-11 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q19398318
- 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 "Voksenkoll-ulykken" (page 70140, revision 25510758), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- 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 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.