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This plane crash takes us to the European country of Sweden, which is located next to the following countries: Norway and Finland and it's located near Denmark.
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Pictured above is a similar type of aircraft involved in this accident.
Linjeflyg Flight 267V was a controlled flight into terrain by a Convair 440-75 Metropolitan on the 20th of November 1964 at 21:14pm in Ängelholm, Skåne, Sweden. The Linjeflyg pilots, misled by a non-conventional military runway light configuration, descended too early and on a faulty course during approach to Ängelholm–Helsingborg Airport (IATA: AGH, ICAO: ESTA). The crash killed 31 of 43 people on board, making it the deadliest aviation accident in Sweden.
The flight was en route from Stockholm to Ängelholm, but bad weather caused it to skip stopovers at Hultsfred and Halmstad. There was less than 2.0 kilometers (1.2 mi) visibility and a low cloud base at Ängelholm, so air traffic control lit its approach lighting system. As the civilian sector at Swedish Air Force base F 10 Ängelholm, the airport had a military configuration and did not follow normal civilian configuration. This caused a misunderstanding in the navigation and the aircraft landed 2.0 kilometers (1.2 mi) before the runway threshold. The aircraft inverted while sliding after impact. Despite the death toll, three people walked uninjured from the crash.
The investigation commission found no fault of the pilot or air traffic control, instead focusing on short-cuts being taken by the Swedish Air Force and the Civil Aviation Administration (CAA) to not configure military airports in line with civilian regulations. The finding caused a surge of funding which subsequently caused military airports to change their instrument landing system and approach lighting system to meet civilian requirements.
The accident aircraft was a Convair CV-340-62, which had been converted to a CV-440 Metropolitan. It had production date 23rd of June 1954 and was delivered to Real Transportes Aéreos of Brazil on the 17th of November 1955, where it was registered as PP-YRC. It became the property of Varig with the merger of the two airlines in August 1961. This made the aircraft superfluous and it was subsequently sold to Linjeflyg on 13 December 1961 through the holding company Airtaco. The aircraft was registered in Sweden on the 14th of March 1962 as SE-CCK. It was subsequently sent to Oslo for conversion to a CV-440. Ownership was transferred from Airtaco to its owner, Dagens Nyheter, in 1962. They sold it to Aerotransport on the 1st of October 1964.
Flight 267 was a scheduled, domestic service which was scheduled to fly from Stockholm Bromma Airport (IATA: BMA, ICAO: ESSB) to Ängelholm–Helsingborg Airport, with intermediate stops at Hultsfred Airport (IATA: HLF, ICAO: ESSF) and Halmstad Airport (IATA: HAD, ICAO: ESMT). Due to poor weather it was decided that the aircraft would not land at Hultsfred and the flight code was changed to Flight 267V to reflect this. The aircraft had a flight crew of four, of which one of the two flight attendants was under training. Thirty-nine passengers boarded the aircraft in Stockholm, including one child and three members of Parliament. It departed Bromma at 19:46pm. It cruised at an altitude of 3,600 meters (11,800 ft). While en route, increasing fog was observed at Halmstad and the meteorologist at Ängelholm recommended that the aircraft bypass Halmstad and fly directly to Ängelholm.
