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Sola accident 1953

10 Jul 1953 · Gimra, Sola.

Royal Norwegian Air Force Republic F-84 Thunderjet · Collision

From an unrecorded airport to Stavanger Airport, Sola (SVG)

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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
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
Military

Republic F-84 Thunderjet

Aircraft type
Republic F-84
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
Onboard fatalities
11
Route
From not recordedTo Stavanger Airport, Sola (SVG)

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 Sola accident was an air accident that occurred at Sola Air Station on 10 July 1953. At around 13 o'clock an F-84G of the Royal Norwegian Air Force and a Dakota of the US Air Force flew into each other over Gimre outside Sola.

The American aircraft came from the Lakenheath base in Suffolk in England. It had a crew of four, with six passengers. South of the runway at Sola it flew into a fighter aircraft from 331 Squadron that was out on a training flight. In the collision one of the wings of the Dakota fell off. Wreckage was scattered over the Killingland and Gimre area.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Norwegian Wikipedia article “Sola-ulykken 1953” (revision 23863241, 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: Sola-ulykken 1953
Article
Sola-ulykken 1953
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
23863241 · 2023-10-01 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q19389541
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 "Sola-ulykken 1953" (page 940513, revision 23863241), 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
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.