Jan Fredrik Wiborg (9 October 1944 – 21 June 1994) was a Norwegian civil engineer. During the early 1990s, he criticised plans for building

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's new airport at

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. The Parliament of Norway had originally decided to build the new airport at

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, but weather surveys claimed this location would only be operable 80% of the time. Wiborg claimed the information was falsified and that parliament were deliberately misled by government officials. Wiborg died on 21 June 1994 after falling from a hotel window in Copenhagen, and crucial documents about the case disappeared. . Circumstances about his death was never fully cleared, Journalists from the newspaper ''

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'' were awarded the prestigious SKUP prize in 1999 for their investigation of the case. In 2000 the parliamentary Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs held a public hearing about the alleged foul play during the airport planning process. An official report was released in 2001.

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Norwegian civil engineers Deaths in Denmark Norwegian whistleblowers 1944 births 1994 deaths {{Norway-engineer-stub

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