2022 Þingvallavatn air crash
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 3 February 2022 |
| Summary | Water landing |
| Site | Þingvallavatn, Iceland |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Cessna 172N |
| Operator | Volcano Air ehf. |
| Registration | TF-ABB |
| Flight origin | Reykjavík Airport |
| Occupants | 4 |
| Passengers | 3 |
| Crew | 1 |
| Fatalities | 4 |
| Survivors | 0 |
On 3 February 2022, a Cessna 172N single-engine aircraft crashed in Þingvallavatn, a rift valley lake around 50 km from Reykjavík, Iceland, while on a sight-seeing tour from Reykjavík Airport. All four people on board were killed. The plane initial disappearance resulted in Iceland's largest search and rescue operation for a missing aircraft in over 40 years.
Accident[edit]
The plane left Reykjavík Airport at 10:30 and its flight plan was for a two-hour flight. A security camera footage from a nearby summerhouse later revealed that roughly a hour later the plane seemed to be attempting either a controlled landing or a touch-and-go landing in Þingvallavatn, which was covered with thin ice at the time, when it crashed and sank.[1] When the plane did not return as scheduled, it was reported missing. The resulting search operation was the largest for a missing aircraft in Iceland in over 40 years, since the disappearance of TF-ROM in May 1981,[2] with over 1,000 members of Iceland's Search and Rescue organizations participating in the search.[3] The wreck of the plane was discovered on 5 February in Þingvallavatn,[4] at the depth of 48 meters around 800 meters away from shore. The following day, a radio controlled submarine found four bodies in a 300-meter radius around the plane.[5] It was believed that all of the occupants escaped the plane but where unable to swim to the shore in the freezing waters.[6]
Occupants[edit]
The pilot of the plane was Haraldur Diego, one of Iceland's most prominent aviators and a pioneer of photography tours.[3][7] The passengers were part of a group of ten who were in Iceland to take part in an advertising campaign for the Belgian clothing line Suspicious Antwerp.[8][9][10]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Flugvélin sést á myndbandsupptökum". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 7 February 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Sigurður Bogi Sævarsson (5 February 2022). "Leituðu að TF-ROM í tvær vikur árið 1981". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 7 February 2022.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Egill Bjarnason (7 February 2022). "US skateboarder, Belgian influencer killed in Iceland crash". Washington Post. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
- ↑ "Flugvélin fundin". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 5 February 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Kristín Sigurðardóttir (6 February 2022). "Fjögur lík fundin í Þingvallavatni". RÚV (in Icelandic). Retrieved 7 February 2022.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ "Fólkið hefur komist úr flugvélinni af sjálfsdáðum". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 5 May 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Einar Þór Sigurðsson (4 February 2022). "Flugmaðurinn reynslumikill: Ferðamennirnir frá Bandaríkjunum, Hollandi og Belgíu". Fréttablaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 7 February 2022.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Óttar Kolbeinsson Proppé (7 February 2022). "Voru á landinu fyrir auglýsingaherferð fatalínunnar". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 7 February 2022.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ "Islande. Un youtubeur américain et un influenceur belge parmi les victimes du crash d'un avion". Ouest-France (in French). 7 February 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Marcel Vink (7 February 2022). "Familie van op IJsland omgekomen Nederlander: 'We laten Tim hier niet achter'". De Telegraaf (in Dutch). Retrieved 7 February 2022.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
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