Helicopter accident at Huvudskär
Boeing Vertol 107 · Rotor failure
From Gotska Sandön to Berga Heliport (ESQP)
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
- 10 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 2
- 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
- 3
- 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
Boeing Vertol 107
- Aircraft type
- Boeing Vertol 107
- 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
- Unknown
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 10
- Route
- From Gotska SandönTo Berga Heliport (ESQP)
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 Huvudskär occurred on the morning of 6 September 1968, when a Boeing Vertol 107 (Helikopter 4B) with callsign "Yngve 62" belonging to the 11th Helicopter Division (Yngve Röd) crashed into the sea off the island of Huvudskär in Haninge Municipality in the Stockholm archipelago. The accident is the single worst crash to have struck the armed forces' helicopter operations in all the years.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Swedish Wikipedia article “Helikopterolyckan vid Huvudskär” (revision 57538084, 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 Huvudskär
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 57538084 · 2025-06-01 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q111652240
- 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 Huvudskär" (page 8650760, revision 57538084), 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): A Swedish armed forces helicopter of the 11th Helicopter Division: a military flight. The article: "The accident is the single worst crash to have struck the armed forces' helicopter operations in all the years."
- 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.