Hakkloa accident
United States Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain · Controlled flight into terrain
From Statfjord B (ENFB) to Ørland Airport (OLA)
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
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
- 43-49024
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 4
- Route
- From Statfjord B (ENFB)To Ørland Airport (OLA)
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 Hakkloa accident was an air accident that occurred on 2 December 1959 when an American Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft operated by the USAF with four American crew members crashed at Hakkloa in Nordmarka. There was fog in the area when the aircraft crashed, and everyone on board was killed in the accident.
The aircraft crashed at Leirvika, on the east side of Store Sandungen, one kilometre north of Hakkloa in Nordmarka. The aircraft had taken off from Fornebu to go to Ørland. The aircraft cut a swath 200 metres long through the forest, it was completely smashed and wreckage was scattered over a large area. Loggers heard a bang and saw flashes of light in the sea of fog.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Norwegian Wikipedia article “Hakkloa-ulykken” (revision 21821524, 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: Hakkloa-ulykken
- Article
- Hakkloa-ulykken
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 21821524 · 2021-09-10 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q17779757
- 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 "Hakkloa-ulykken" (page 718288, revision 21821524), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- 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
- 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.