What the records say
- When
- 6 May 1988
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 65.39° N, 12.09° E
- Description
- 1988 aviation accident in Norway
- Deaths
- 36
- Injured
- 0
- Cause
- controlled flight into terrain
Widerøe Flight 710
1988 aviation accident in Norway
Widerøe Flight 710, also known as the Torghatten Accident, was a controlled flight into terrain into the mountain of Torghatten in Brønnøy Municipality, Norway. The Widerøe-operated de Havilland Canada Dash 7 crashed on 6 May 1988 at 20:29:30 during approach to Brønnøysund Airport.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Widerøe Flight 710, a Dash 7, crashes in Torghatten, Norway in heavy fog, killing all 36 passengers in the worst-ever Dash 7 accident”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “le vol Widerøe 710, un vol régional régulier assuré par un De Havilland Canada Dash 7 de la compagnie norvégienne Widerøe, s'est écrasé sur le flanc de la…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page