Linjeflyg Flight 618 [SEP] point in time
Linjeflyg Flight 618
Linjeflyg Flight 618 was a crash of a Vickers 838 Viscount during approach to Stockholm Bromma Airport at 09:05 on 15 January 1977. All twenty-two people on board the aircraft perished when it hit ground at Kälvesta in Stockholm, Sweden. The domestic service from Malmö via Kristianstad, Växjö and Jönköping was operated by Skyline on behalf of Linjeflyg as part of the latter's domestic scheduled services. The accident was caused by atmospheric icing on the horizontal stabilizer. Low power on two of the engines had caused reduced
moved to the conventional civilian locations. Flight 267 was the seventh loss of a Convair CV-240 family aircraft. At the time it was deadliest and now remains the fifth-deadliest accident of the type. The accident remains the deadliest aviation accident in Sweden. Linjeflyg would suffer one other fatal accident, Flight 618 in 1977, although it was a wet lease operated by Skyline.
The power balance between the CAA and the Swedish Air Force prior to the accident was skewed whereby the latter permitted civilian flights to their air bases on