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Fifteen people are killed when Widerøe Flight 933 crashes into the Barents Sea near Gamvik, Norway.
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Widerøe Flight 933
1982 aviation accident, Norwegian DHC-6
Widerøe Flight 933, also known as the Mehamn Accident, was the crash of a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter operated by Norwegian airline Widerøe. The Twin Otter crashed into the Barents Sea off Gamvik, Norway on 11 March 1982 at 13:27, killing all 15 people on board. The…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Barents Sea
Marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia
The Barents Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters. It was known earlier among Russians as the Northern Sea, Pomorsky Sea or Murman Sea ; the current name of the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Gamvik (village)
Village in Northern Norway, Norway
Gamvik is a fishing village in Gamvik Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the northern shore of the Nordkinn Peninsula, along the Barents Sea. The village is the second largest settlement in Gamvik municipality, after the municipal centre of Mehamn…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
March 11
Day of the year
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