Night Approach Accident at Ängelholm-Helsingborg Airport (SE-CCK)

Flight Details and Approach Conditions The aircraft departed Stockholm-Bromma Airport at 1946 local time, bound for Ängelholm-Helsingborg Airport with planned intermediate stops at Hultsfred and Halmstad. Due to poor weather en route, air traffic control instructed the crew to proceed directly to Ängelholm, and the aircraft continued at an altitude of 12,000 feet. During the final approach at night, the aircraft was off course and too low. In a relatively flat attitude, the airplane struck the ground with its starboard wingtip and landing gear. Eighty meters later, it collided with overhead lines of the West Coast Railway Line, knocking off two concrete posts. The aircraft continued for another 170 meters, struck the ground again, went upside down, and slid for 150 meters before coming to rest. The aircraft was totally destroyed. ## Casualties Both pilots and 29 passengers were killed. Two other crew members and 10 passengers were injured, some seriously. ## Probable Cause The official findings stated that the cause of the accident was in all probability that during the approach in instrument conditions the crew abandoned the set procedure and began the landing too soon. The reason for this must have been that the crew allowed themselves to be misled by an arrangement of lights peculiar to the airfield, with which, apart from certain information received during the approach, they were not acquainted.