Crash of a Junkers JU.52/3mg5e near Solheim: 6 killed

Date & Time: Nov 13, 1942
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
7U+FH
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Site:
Schedule:
Aalborg – Tromsö
MSN:
6978
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
2
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
6
Circumstances:
En route, the three-engine aircraft hit the slope of a mountain located some 15 km east of Solheim. The wreckage was found on December 18, 1942. No one survived the crash.
Crew (1./KGr.zbV108):
ObLt Werner Hoffman, pilot,
Fwb Wilhelm Steinhauer, radio operator,
Uffw Günther Uhlig
Fwb Adam Eschborn, flight engineer.
Passengers:
FwTreuwart Teichgräber,
Fw Ewald Brackmann.
Source & photos:
http://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/tangedalskaret.html

Crash of a Junkers JU.52/3mge on Mt Lyhesten: 7 killed

Date & Time: Jun 16, 1936 at 0700 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
LN-DAE
Flight Phase:
Survivors:
No
Site:
Schedule:
Bergen – Tromsø
MSN:
4077
YOM:
1935
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
3
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The three engine float plane named 'Havørn' departed Bergen harbor at 0630LT on a flight to Tromsø. At 0654LT, the crew reported his position at an altitude estimated between 3,000 and 5,000 feet. Six minutes later, while cruising in clouds, the airplane impacted the south face of Mt Lyhesten located 4 km west of Hyllestad. The aircraft was totally destroyed and all seven occupants were killed.
Crew:
Ditlef Pentz Smith, pilot,
Erik Storm, copilot,
Per Ruth Paasche, pilot,
Per Erling Hegle, radio operator.
Passengers:
Harald Wigum,
Sven Løgit,
Wilhelm Dall.
Probable cause:
Controlled flight into terrain after the airplane deviated from the prescribed route by 15-20 km in marginal weather conditions.

Crash of a Latham 47 in the Barents Sea: 6 killed

Date & Time: Jun 18, 1928 at 1845 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Caudebec-en-Caux - Bergen - Tromsø - Longyearbyen
MSN:
47.02
YOM:
1928
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
2
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
6
Circumstances:
Few days prior to the accident, the Italian Airship named 'Italia' and piloted by the Italian General Umberto Nobile crashed on the ice in Arctica with 15 people on board. The Norwegian Scientist Roald Amundsen obtained help from the French government to attempt a SAR mission. On 16 of June, the seaplane departed Caudebec-en-Caux, north of France, with a crew of four on board, bound to Bergen and Tromsø where Roald Amundsen boarded with his pilot Leif Dietrichson. The aircraft departed Tromsø at 1600LT. About three hours later, the crew sent his last message, confirming that all was OK on board. While cruising off the Norwegian coasts, half a way from Tromsø to Longyearbyen, in the Svalbard archipelago, the aircraft disappeared while the communication was cut. SAR mission was initiated but no trace of the aircraft nor the crew was found. On 13AUG1928, a lateral stabilization float was found and all SAR operations were officially abandoned by the Norwegian Authorities in September 1928. On 13OCT1928, a fuel tank was found on a beach in Norway while a second tank was found few days later. This would be the only part of the aircraft ever found. In 2003, a Norwegian commission announced the aircraft probably crashed off Bear Island, in the Barents Sea.
Crew:
René Guilbaud, pilot,
Emile Valette, radio,
Lieutenant de Vaisseau Albert Cavelier de Cuverville,
Gilbert Brazy, mechanic.
Passengers:
Roald Amundsen,
Leif Dietrichson, pilot.