Braathens Flight 239 was a flight between Ålesund Airport, Vigra and OsloFornebu airport which crashed in Asker on December 23, 1972 killing 40 people. It was the worst airline disaster involving a Norwegian airline until Partnair Flight 394, and the worst disaster on Norwegian soil until Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801. It was also the first fatal crash of a Fokker Fellowship. December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... The airline Braathens merged with the Norwegian part of SAS to become SAS Braathens in 2004. ... County Oslo NO-03 District Viken Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 224 454 km² 426 km² 0. ... Fornebu (archaic form Fornebo) is a peninsular area in the suburban municipality of Bærum in Norway, close to the countrys capital Oslo. ... County Akershus Landscape Viken Municipality NO-0220 Administrative centre Asker Mayor (2005) Morten Gunnar Strand (H) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 385 101 km² 97 km² 0. ... December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... Partnair Flight 394 was a chartered plane flight which crashed on September 8, 1989 off the coast of Denmark 30 km north of Hirtshals. ... Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 was a chartered flight from the Russian company Vnukovo Airlines which on August 29, 1996 crashed into a mountain on Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipeligo killing all 141 people on board. ...
The aircraft was a Fokker F-28 Fellowship, with tail number LN-SUY and nicknamed "Sverre Sigurdsson". It had entered service in 1969. On this flight there were 42 passengers and a crew of 3. An aircraft registration is a unique alphanumeric string that can be used to identify any aircraft. ...
Crash
The plane crashed near the Asdøltjern Lake, 15 km from the airport while it was making an night time approach to Fornebu airport. The plane was flying too low and was somewhat off course, perhaps because the plane had taken a shortcut. Fog and low clouds may also have contributed to the accident. When rescue teams arrived at about 23:00 at night, they found only seven survivors, and two more died shortly afterwards.
A memorial to the victims was raised near the crashsite in 1998.
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