Conference turris::scandia

148.0. "Fatal accident in the Svalbard Islands" by TLE::SAVAGE (Neil, @Spit Brook) Mon Oct 13 1986 10:29

Associated Press Fri 10-OCT-1986 22:38                     Norway-Plane Crash

                     Six Norwegians Killed In Plane Crash
    
    OSLO, Norway (AP) - A single-engine plane crashed on take-off from the
    Arctic community of Longyearbyen in the Svalbard achipelago Friday,
    killing all six people on board, the NTB news agency said. The
    Norwegian news agency said the Cessna 185 had been chartered to fly
    five women to Ny-Aalesund, a remote outpost on another part of the
    Norwegian archipelago. 
    
    All five women and the Norwegian pilot died, the news agency said. The
    women were employed by the Store Norske Spitsbergen Kullkompani, which
    is mining coal on the Svalbard islands. 
    
    Erik Framstad, a government spokesman on Svalbard, said by telephone
    the plane crashed 400 to 500 yards beyond the end of the runway. The
    cause of the crash was not immediately known.