The Swedish Accident Investigation Authority ( sv, Statens haverikommission, or SHK, in English formerly the Swedish Accident Investigation Board) is a
Swedish
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government agency
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tasked with investigating all types of serious civil or military accidents that can occur on land, on the sea or in the air. Incidents are also to be investigated if there was a serious risk of an accident. Its headquarters are in
Stockholm
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Directors General
Directors General:
*1978-07-01 – 1987-06-30 – Göran Steen
*1987-07-01 – 1997-05-29 – Olof Forssberg
*1997-05-30 – 1997-06-08 – S-E Sigfridsson (acting)
*1997-06-09 – 2002-01-06 – Ann-Louise Eksborg
*2002-01-07 – 2004-01-31 – Lena Svenaeus
*2004-02-01 – 2004-05-31 – Carin Hellner (acting)
*2004-04-01 – 2011-04-17 – Åsa Kastman Heuman
*2011-04-18 – 2020-05-01 – Hans Ytterberg
*2020-05-01 – present – John Ahlberk
Notable investigations
* Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751
Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 751 was a regularly scheduled Scandinavian Airlines passenger flight from Stockholm, Sweden, to Warsaw, Poland, via Copenhagen, Denmark. On 27 December 1991, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81 operating the flight, r ...
(1991)
* M/S ''Estonia'' (1994)
* Falsterbo Swedish Coast Guard C-212 crash (2006)
* MV ''Finnbirch'' (2006)
* Norwegian Air Force C-130 crash (2012)
* Saltsjöbanan train crash (2013)
* West Air Sweden Flight 294
West Air Sweden Flight 294 was a cargo flight of a Canadair CRJ200 from Oslo to Tromsø, Norway that crashed on 8 January 2016. A malfunction in one of the inertial reference units had produced erroneous attitude indications on one of the instrume ...
(2016)
* Skydive Umeå Gippsland GA8 Airvan crash (2019)
See also
* Swedish Civil Aviation Administration
* Swedish Maritime Administration
The Swedish Maritime Administration ( sv, Sjöfartsverket) is the government agency in Sweden which provides services to the transport sector by keeping the sea lanes open and safe. The agency is to a certain degree financed through fees levied o ...
References
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Rail accident investigators
Organizations investigating aviation accidents and incidents
Aviation in Sweden
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Safety organizations
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Transport organizations based in Sweden
Transport safety organizations
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