1997 Hävlingen air accident
XYZ Flygtjänst HB Cessna 185 Skywagon · Pilot drunkenness
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
- 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
- Charter & commuter
Cessna 185 Skywagon
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 185
- 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
- SE-FRR
- Operator
- XYZ Flygtjänst HB
- Onboard fatalities
- 3
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
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 1997 Hävlingen air accident was an accident in which an aircraft flown by XYZ Flygtjänst HB, on 9 August 1997, failed in its take-off from the lake Hävlingen and collided with a ridge on the lake's southern shore. Three of the four on board were killed.
The accident
The aircraft, a Cessna A 185F, was to take off from the lake Hävlingen in Dalarna on the morning of 9 August 1997. The aircraft, however, did not manage to climb quickly enough from the lake, and instead collided with a ridge on the lake's southern side.
On board the air taxi were the pilot and three passengers in a fishing party who were to be flown to Grövelsjön. When the aircraft collided with the ridge, it caught fire, and the pilot died immediately in the accident, while one passenger died of his burns the day after, and another as a result of his injuries two years later, while the last passenger sustained permanent disabling injuries. At the time of the accident an FBU group was nearby and was able to begin rescue work quickly.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Swedish Wikipedia article “Flygolyckan på Hävlingen 1997” (revision 59340029, 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: Flygolyckan på Hävlingen 1997
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 59340029 · 2026-05-25 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q105675451
- 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 "Flygolyckan på Hävlingen 1997" (page 8535852, revision 59340029), 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): An air taxi carrying a fishing party: an on-demand air taxi flight. The article: "On board the air taxi were the pilot and three passengers in a fishing party"
- 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.