1958 Skärhamn air accident
Saab 29 Tunnan · Engine failure
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
- Unknown
- Event fatalities
- 0 · 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
- 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
Saab 29 Tunnan
Approximate · Estimated position: Skärhamn, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The 1958 Skärhamn air accident was a crash of a fighter aircraft of the type Saab J-29F which resulted in an air crash in the locality of Skärhamn on Tjörn on 28 August 1958. During the crash the aircraft was meant to follow a course out towards the sea but instead deviated down towards the mainland. No people were injured.
During a routine exercise the pilot, vice corporal Jan Hulting from Nässjö, had suffered an engine failure on the fighter aircraft. During a climb using the afterburner (EBK) from 8,000 metres to 12,000 metres altitude, the aircraft went into level flight, the throttle was reduced and the EBK thereby went out. When the EBK was completely extinguished, the engine speed continued to drop despite throttle being applied. After a number of restart attempts and loss of altitude to 1,500 metres, Hulting left the fighter aircraft by ejection seat and landed safely by parachute at Sävelycke farm in Jörlanda.
The unmanned fighter aircraft, with an intended course towards the sea, first struck the roof of a cowshed and then a pigsty in Skärhamn, where a pig lost its life, after which the fuselage went through a grove of deciduous trees, struck a rocky knoll lightly and slid out over a slope to finally stop a few metres from a car repair shop that housed 15,000 litres of fuel. The crash took place where Tjörn's municipal hall stands today.
The fuselage began to burn and the fire brigade was called. After an hour of firefighting the fire was extinguished without the car repair shop's fuel depot having caught fire. The cause of the crash was engine stoppage, probably EBK regulation that had become faulty during operation.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Swedish Wikipedia article “Flygolyckan i Skärhamn 1958” (revision 59465256, 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 i Skärhamn 1958
- Article
- Flygolyckan i Skärhamn 1958
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 59465256 · 2026-07-12 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q109317067
- 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 i Skärhamn 1958" (page 8604655, revision 59465256), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): A fighter on a routine exercise flown by a pilot with a military rank: a military flight. The article: "During a routine exercise the pilot, vice corporal Jan Hulting from Nässjö, had suffered an engine failure on the fighter aircraft."
- 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.