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This plane crash takes us to the European country of Denmark, which is located next to the following countries: Germany, Sweden and it's located near Norway.
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Pictured above is the accident aircraft, photographed in 1987.
Pictured below is the reconstructed tail section of the aircraft after it crashed.
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Partnair Flight 394 was a chartered flight that crashed on the 8th of September 1989 off the coast of Denmark, 18 kilometres (10 nautical miles) north of Hirtshals. All 55 people on board the aircraft died, making this the deadliest disaster in Danish aviation history and the deadliest accident involving the Convair CV-240 series. The accident was caused by improper maintenance and use of counterfeit aircraft parts.
The accident aircraft, registered as LN-PAA (Lima November- Papa Alpha Alpha), was a 36-year-old Convair CV-580 operated by the Norwegian charter airline Partnair. The aircraft was first built in 1953 for United Airlines. Throughout its life it had changed owners several times with different registrations (N73128, EC-FDP, PK-GDS, HR-SAX, JA101C, N770PR, and C-GKFT), undergone various modifications, and had been rebuilt after a landing accident in 1978. The most significant modification was a change from piston to turboprop engines in 1960; this added more horsepower to the aircraft. In addition, the aircraft was not originally equipped with an auxiliary power unit (APU), but one was later added as an aftermarket modification and is relevant to this incident.[4] The owner of the aircraft preceding its sale to Partnair was Kelowna Flightcraft, a Canadian company that specialized in servicing Convair aircraft. LN-PAA was one of the aircraft most recently acquired by Partnair. At the time of the accident, two other Convair 580s were in the Partnair fleet.
The flight crew consisted of Captain Knut Tveiten and First Officer Finn Petter Berg, both aged 59. Tveiten and Berg were close friends who had flown together for years. Both pilots were very experienced, with close to 17,000 successful flight hours each. Berg was also Partnair's flight operations manager.
At the time of the accident, Partnair was in financial difficulty. The airline's debts were such that, on the day of the accident flight, Norwegian aviation authorities had notified Norwegian airports to not allow Partnair aircraft to depart because the airline had not paid several charges and fees.
