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The Swedish Accident Investigation Authority ( sv, Statens haverikommission, or SHK, in English formerly the Swedish Accident Investigation Board) is a
Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
government agency A government or state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an administrati ...
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
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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

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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


External links

* * Rail accident investigators Organizations investigating aviation accidents and incidents Aviation in Sweden Automotive safety Safety organizations Accident Investigation Board Transport organizations based in Sweden Transport safety organizations {{Sweden-org-stub