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Widerøe Flight 839 crashes after takeoff from Værøy Airport in Norway, killing five people.
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Widerøe Flight 839
1990 aviation accident
Widerøe Flight 839, also known as the Værøy Accident, was a de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter that crashed shortly after takeoff from Værøy Airport in Værøy Municipality in Lofoten, Norway. The accident occurred on 12 April 1990 at 14:44, killing all five people on board.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Værøy Airport
Former Airport in Værøy, Norway
Værøy Airport was a regional airport located just southwest of the village of Nordland on the island of Værøya in Værøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Operated between 1986 and 1990, it had an 800-by-30-meter asphalt runway aligned 07–25. The airport was owned and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Norway
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Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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