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The crash site of the DC-3 was featured in the music video of Justin Bieber's 2015 song I'll Show You. [9] American musician George Hirsch's 2016 album Hijrah used an image of the Sólheimasandur crash as its cover. [10] The show Top Gear America featured in the episode "Viking Trucks" while in Iceland. [citation needed]
1950 Geysir air crash; 1951 Glitfaxi plane crash; 1973 Sólheimasandur Douglas DC-3 crash; 1975 Kjalarnes helicopter crash; 1979 Mosfellsheiði air crashes; 1986 Eagle Air Piper PA-23 crash; 2000 Skerjafjörður plane crash
Royal Thai Air Force plane crashed on take-off from Chiang Klang Airport. [4] February 12, 1970: Douglas DC-3 TAM-11 None Crashed while attempting an emergency landing at Laja Airport. The aircraft was operating a non-scheduled passenger flight. All five people on board survived. [5] February 12, 1970: Douglas C-47B CC-CBT None
1973 US Navy C-117D Sólheimasandur Iceland Crash. BuNo. 17154 named "Negatus Perspirus" crashed at Byrd Station Antarctica on January 6, 1960. [8] BuNo. 17219 named "Semper Shafters USMC" damaged on landing and abandoned at Horlick Mountains Antarctica on November 12, 1961. [8] BuNo. 17188 crashed at Sentinel Range Antarctica on November 22 ...
The accident is the deadliest air accident in Iceland [1] [6] and the second deadliest involving an Icelandic aircraft, after the crash of Icelandic Airlines Flight 001 in Sri Lanka in 1978. [7] In 1997, fifty years after the accident, the Súlur Kiwanis Club of Ólafsfjörður erected a memorial below the crash site in the form of a two-metre ...
Sólheimasandur Plane Crash: 37396 Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon: Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon No. 37396: 39939 Beech SNB-1 Kansan: Cubana de Aviación Flight 493: 86180 General Motors TBM-3E Avenger: General Motors TBM-3E Avenger No. 86180: 131582 Douglas R6D-1 Liftmaster: 1960 Rio de Janeiro air crash: 135749 Lockheed EC-121M Warning Star: EC-121 shootdown ...
The 1975 Kjalarnes helicopter crash occurred on 17 January 1975, when a Sikorsky S-55B helicopter crashed by the Hjarðarnes farm in Hvalfjörður, Iceland, while en route from Reykjavík Airport to Snæfellsnes. [1] Seven people were on board, including two crew members and five employees of RARIK, the Icelandic State Electricity company. [2]
On 5 April 1986, at 13:26, an Eagle Air Piper PA-23-250 Aztec light aircraft crashed in Ljósufjöll in Snæfellsnes, Iceland killing five of the occupants on board. [1] [2] [3] The aircraft was on a charter flight from Ísafjörður to Reykjavík and carried six passengers, including a couple with an 11-month-old child, and a pilot.