Helicopter accident at Boxviks kile
Swedish Navy Aérospatiale Alouette II · Controlled flight into terrain
From Orust to Orust
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
- 3 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 1
- 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
- Military
Aérospatiale Alouette II
- Aircraft type
- Aérospatiale ALOUETTE
- Category
- Helicopter · 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
- HKP 2 regnr: 111
- Operator
- Swedish Navy
- Onboard fatalities
- 3
- Route
- From OrustTo Orust
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 helicopter accident at Boxviks kile took place on 3 October 1963 during a flight carried out with an Aérospatiale Alouette II helicopter for the purpose of filming a large military exercise taking place around Orust. The helicopter crashed on the way back from the filming, with a reporter from Sveriges Radio-TV, Bo Sture Nilsson, the freelance photographer Sven Lindqvist and the helicopter pilot overfurir Gösta Lindqvist, as well as a sound engineer from Gothenburg. The helicopter was flying low over Boxviks Kile when the helicopter pilot discovered a power line at the last second. According to witnesses, the helicopter pilot swerved sharply upwards and flew straight into the southern power line, which at that point was higher than the first.
The only survivor was the sound engineer Kenneth Sandin, who managed to get out of the helicopter after the crash.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Swedish Wikipedia article “Helikopterolyckan vid Boxviks kile” (revision 56656777, 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: Helikopterolyckan vid Boxviks kile
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 56656777 · 2025-01-11 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q62112615
- 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 "Helikopterolyckan vid Boxviks kile" (page 8279685, revision 56656777), 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 Swedish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.