Snarøya accident
Norwegian Air Lines Junkers Ju 52/3m · Technical failure in engine number 1 during climb
From Statfjord B (ENFB) to Stockholm-Bromma Airport (BMA)
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
- 13 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- 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
- 1
- 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
Junkers Ju 52/3m
- Aircraft type
- Junkers JU-52
- 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
- Operator
- Norwegian Air Lines
- Onboard fatalities
- 13
- Route
- From Statfjord B (ENFB)To Stockholm-Bromma Airport (BMA)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The Snarøya accident was an air accident that occurred on 22 May 1946, when an aircraft of the airline Det Norske Luftfartselskap (DNL) crashed on the island of Snarøya outside Oslo in Norway. It was the first air accident suffered by Norwegian civil aviation after the Second World War, and it occurred only half a month after the airline DNL had introduced scheduled flights after the war.
The aircraft, which was to fly from Oslo Airport, Fornebu to Bromma Airport outside Stockholm, was a Junkers Ju-52/3M2E, a former Luftwaffe machine. Ten passengers and three crew members died. However, no one on the ground was injured. Among the dead were the Swedish artist Isaac Grünewald with his wife Märta and the Norwegian resistance man and author Ronald Fangen.
Investigation and cause
Cause of the accident
The aircraft had just barely taken off from Fornebu, on its way to Stockholm, when engine number one stopped working. The aircraft tried to return to the airport but lost altitude, collided with the treetops and crashed in a field and into a house at Halden Terrasse 10 on Snarøya.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Swedish Wikipedia article “Snarøyaolyckan” (revision 57362718, 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
Swedish Wikipedia article: Snarøyaolyckan
- Article
- Snarøyaolyckan
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 57362718 · 2025-04-29 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q19389433
- 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
- sv Wikipedia article "Snarøyaolyckan" (page 8239594, revision 57362718), 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 airline 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 Swedish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.