The ''Kvitbjørn'' disaster occurred on 28 August 1947 when, in heavy fog, the

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''Kvitbjørn'', registered LN-IAV, hit a mountain close to Lødingsfjellet in Lødingen, southern Tjeldsundet, Norway. The flying boat crashed en route from

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, the two stopovers between its origin

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and destination

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. All thirty-five people on board (twenty-eight passengers and a crew of seven) perished, making the crash the deadliest in Norwegian aviation at that time.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20110724180209/http://www.isorreisa.no/i/art.php?art=10147 * https://web.archive.org/web/20080922220551/http://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/lodingen.html Aviation accidents and incidents in Norway Aviation accidents and incidents in the Arctic Aviation accidents and incidents in 1947 Airliner accidents and incidents involving controlled flight into terrain Norwegian Air Lines accidents and incidents August 1947 events in Europe {{Norway-transport-stub