Norwegian C-130J missing

[wamovements]

During cold response exercise today in Sweden a Norwegian C-130j went missing. More to come..

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http://www.thelocal.se/39694/20120315/

Norwegian Hercules plane missing in Sweden

Published: 15 Mar 12 17:57 CET
Updated: 15 Mar 12 18:50 CET

[wamovements]

Reported 5 people on board. Doesn't look good. Plane is missing for 4 hours now....

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[Rockville]

Norwegian military plane goes missing during exercise CR

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- A Norwegian military transport plane with five people on board went missing Thursday during an exercise and was feared to have crashed in northern Sweden, officials said.

The C-130 was heading from Evenes in northern Norway to the Swedish city of Kiruna where it was supposed to pick up personnel, the Norwegian Armed Forces said.

Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane when it was 80-90 kilometers west of Kiruna, Norwegian military spokesman John Espen Lien said.

"We have to assume that we are looking for a plane that has crashed," Lien told The Associated Press.

He said at least four of the five people on board were Norwegians. A search and rescue operation was initiated by rescue services and military units in Sweden and Norway.

The plane went missing during a winter exercise called Cold Response, with 16,000 soldiers from 14 countries taking part. The purpose of the Norwegian-led exercise "is to rehearse high intensity operations in winter conditions within NATO with a U.N. mandate," the country's military said.

© 2012 The Associated Press.
Mar 15, 1:20 PM EDT

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Emergency signals from the plane are said to have been detected coming from the area around Kebnekaise, Sweden's highest peak, Lars Broström of emergency services in Kiruna told the TT news agency.

Two Norwegian rescue helicopters were forced to turn around due to adverse weather conditions, with strong winds in the area where the aircraft is believed to have disappeared.

“Two Danish helicopters are trying to fly above the weather and the Swedish ones are trying to come in form the other side,” said Wrandel.

Swedish emergency response leader Jonas Sundin told the TT news agency that weather conditions had complicated search efforts.

"Unfortunately, there is some bad weather near Mount Kebnekaise, so the Norwegian emergency helicopters had to turn back," he said.

The plane was around 80 kilometres west of Kiruna when contact with the aircraft was lost.

"It's a large and sparsely populated area which is now being searched by several helicopters," Fredrik Persson of the Swedish air rescue services told TT.

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[wamovements]

serial is 5630 according to touchdown news

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[Agg]

That's correct, "5630 - "Siv"" is the one who's missing. Still no sign of her or the crew...

[Stratofreighter]

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http://www.tv2.no/nyheter/innenriks/ove ... 35357.html

Published 16.03.2012 16.02 16.03.2012 16.02
Oppdatert Updated 16.03.2012 17.18 16.03.2012 17.18

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Surveillance has been found at Kebnekaise
Et norsk Orion overvåkingsfly har observert en oransjefarget gjenstand i fjellet hvor man tror Hercules-maskinen har styrtet. A Norwegian Orion surveillance aircraft observed an orange-colored object in the mountains where you think the Hercules machine has crashed.

- One of the Norwegian orion aircraft have observed an orange-like object in the mountain area. Observasjonen er gjort på vestsiden av fjellryggen i en skråning. The observation is made on the west side of the ridge on a slope. Det har gått et snøskred i området, forteller Tore Wangsfjord ved Hovedredningssentralen Nord-Norge til tv2.no like før klokken 16. It's been an avalanche in the area, says Tore Wang Fjord at the Rescue Coordination Centre of North Norway to tv2.no just before 16

Gjenstanden behøver imidlertid ikke være en del fra flyet. The object need not be part of the aircraft. Litt før klokken 17 kommer det meldinger om at dette kan dreie seg om markører som brukes av forskere. Just before the clock 17 is the message that this may involve markers that are used by researchers.

– Lokalbefolkningen sier at dette er et isbreområde som det også drives forskning i, og for å markere en del punkter under forskningen bruker de oransje markører. - Locals say that this is a glacier area that also operates research, and to highlight some points during the research using the orange markers. Men om det er dette de har sett fra Orion-flyet, vet man ikke, sier reporter Roy-Arne Salater i Kiruna. But if this is what they have seen from Orion aircraft, is not known, said reporter Roy-Arne Salads in Kiruna

[ETURSPOTTER]

a report on local television ( L1) said that tonight 1 E-3 and another at 24.00hr departing to search for the C-130

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Two RDAF Merlin helicopters are currently trying to reach the area where these "red debris" were found.
At the moment it is still not sure whether these are "research markers" or indeed parts of the missing C-130J.

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http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/03/16/nyhe ... /20719429/

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- Have found debris that smells kerosene

Letmannskapene on the ground in the mountain area around Kebnekaise may have found the missing parts from Hercules aircraft.

03/16/2012, at. 19:00 7:00 p.m

Kiruna (Dagbladet): Exploration crews in northern Sweden has now been found that can come from the missing Hercules aircraft.
According to chief Harald Sunde is concerned debris.

The Swedish emergency management has declared the area as the site based on these findings. We have been informed by a Swedish rescue team that smells kerosene debris.

We've also got information from our own team that they can observe the wreckage, said Sunde told NRK.
Half an hour before the emergency management team was careful to conclude.

In the same area that we have received from aircraft indicate that there could be objects, two military units on the ground found something.

What this is, is too early to tell, said spokesman Peter Lindquist on the Swedish emergency management team to Dagbladet in 18.30 o'clock.

The discovery he referred to shall be made at the South Summit at Björlingsglascieren in Kebnekaise-mountain area.

At the same time said Defense Minister Espen Barth Eide, in an interview with TV 2 in the evening that it found "metal parts" on both sides of the mountain.

- I want to warn that we draw conclusions too quickly, but it may be that we are onto something, says Barth Eide.

[Kleintje Pils]

Crash site found on Sweden's tallest peak

Published: 17 Mar 12 10:57 CET

Search teams at the top of Sweden's highest mountain have found the site where a Norwegian Hercules plane crashed on Thursday with five people on board.

"Norwegian military ground personnel found the plane. Wreckage from the main body of the plane has been found. Police are now taking over the investigation," Swedish rescue services spokesman Tobias Mikander told Norwegian newspaper VG.

None of the five Norwegian officers on board the plane have yet been found.

Around 100 people are participating in the search for the missing soldiers at the top of Mount Kebnekaise, some 150 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, police said.

Wreckage has been found on the east and west sides of the Kebnekaise Massive at an altitude of more than 1,500 metres.

Heavy overnight snowfall was slowing down the search operation due to the heightened avalanche risk, police spokesman Håkan Alselind told a press conference at 9am.

Search teams still face considerable risks in the search for survivors, as four avalanches took place in the area overnight.

On Friday evening, rescue teams found pieces of wreckage smelling of aircraft fuel.

The aircraft went missing on Thursday afternoon when it was on its way from Evenes in northern Norway to Kiruna in the far north of Sweden.

At the time, the Hercules was participating in the Cold Response military training exercise taking place over northern Norway which was scheduled to run from March 12th to March 21st and included 16,000 soldiers from 15 countries.

"There was a crew of four on board as well as an extra officer. Their mission was to fly from Evenes to Kiruna to pick up materiel and personnel and fly back to Norway," Harald Sunde, head of the Norwegian Armed Forces told Norwegian news agency NTB.

He added that the officers on board the Hercules aircraft were among the "most experienced" in the Norwegian military and that there were no clues regarding what may have happened.

"We have nothing that points us in any particular direction. This is a very robust and new aircraft, one of the best there is. It's been hard to have bad luck with this type of aircraft," said Sunde.

The missing aircraft is a C-130 J "Super" Hercules transport plane manufactured by Lockheed Martin in the United States.

The plane is one of four C-130 Js ordered by the Norwegian air force in 2007, the first of which was delivered in November 2008.

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[jp 74]

Thats sad news.

[TONKACRAZIE22]

ZH103 is on route today & not ZH102 E3 sentry. Callsigns was rescue30 yesterday. Does anybody have Comms of the rescue effort?. maybe on global tuners ?

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Black box from Hercules plane crash found

Published: 5 Aug 12 11:03 CET

Online: http://www.thelocal.se/42436/20120805/

The mystery surrounding the Norwegian Hercules plane which crashed into Kebnekaise may be nearing a solution,
as the Swedish Army’s ranger battalion has found one of the plane’s two black boxes.

The Hercules military plane crashed straight into Sweden’s highest peak Kebnekaise during an exercise this spring, and all five of the Norwegian officers on board were killed.

Why the plane crashed has so far been a mystery.

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