Linjeflyg
Linjeflyg ( German: Flight ) was a Swedish airline that was founded on April 2, 1957. The founding companies were SAS, Dagens Nyheter and Stockholms - Tidningen. On 1 January 1993 the airline was fully integrated into SAS; thus ending their independent existence.
History
The first passenger flight was conducted with a Douglas DC-3 from Malmö to Stockholm. Already in the first year of operation flew Linjeflyg following Swedish cities: Jönköping, Kalmar, Karlstad, Kristianstad, Lidköping, Malmö ( Bulltofta ) Nordmaling, Stockholm (Bromma ), Sundsvall ( Midlanda ), Visby and Växjö. In addition, there was also a flight to Copenhagen.
About night was transported by the airline mail and newspapers and daytime people and cargo were transported. Almost all compounds were domestic calls because the international flights were carried out by SAS.
Gradually Linjeflyg finally flew to 39 destinations, of which Copenhagen and Oslo were the only foreign destinations. From 1957 to 1983 Bromma was the main airport of Linjeflyg before getting into the newly built Terminal 4 just moved in 1983 to Arlanda, since one could no longer meet the noise limits in Bromma.
In the fall of 1990, SAS sold its shares in Linjeflyg to the freight company Bilspedition to buy back only to have one and a half years later. The reason for this was that you wanted to give the brand, and wanted to occur only under SAS. Since 1993, the company is fully integrated into SAS and Linjeflyg brand is no longer used.
Flight accidents
Aviation accident in Ängelholm
On November 20, 1964 Convair CV 340 (SE- CCK) of Linjeflyg in bad weather, crashed on approach to Angelholm ( Barkåkra airfield ). 31 of 39 passengers and 5 crew members were killed. The flight took off under the flight number LF267V at 19:46 Bromma Bromma should the route - Hultsfred - Halmstad - Ängelholm fly. Due to bad weather the pilot decided not ( featuring the "V" in the flight number, that a schedule change was made ) in Hultsfred stop over. During the flight, the weather deteriorated, so we also decided to stopover in Halmstad not perform.
The pilots were planning a combined instruments and visual landing on the web 14 of Barkåkra perform. The visibility was poor, with a visibility of 1.5 km, 2 km and a cloud height of 60 m and rain. At the height of Halmstad, the pilots were given notice that the weather had improved in Ängelholm, which is why this city was then flown directly.
During the approach, the aircraft was however blown off course and had to low height. Although the pilot increased the thrust, but the aircraft touched yet a few miles of the runway the ground and sat briefly on one acre. Shortly after it touched an overhead line of the railroad and then crashed to the ground, slid a few hundred meters to the ground and then rolled over onto the roof. 12 of those on board survived the accident, three of them unharmed.
The Commission of Inquiry was no clear cause of the crash, but the most likely explanation was that it was a concatenation of several circumstances: The airfield Barkåkra was used by the military in particular and the pilots did not know exactly how the military guiding lights were placed at the end of the runway. These, however, were set up differently, as it was customary at civilian airports. In addition, there were some misunderstandings in radio communications between the air traffic controller and the pilot.
Aviation accident in Kälvesta
On January 15, 1977 leased by Skyline Vickers Viscount (SE- FOZ ) made a crash landing in a parking lot on Ängsullsvägen in Kälvesta, a suburb of Stockholm, when she was on the approach to Bromma. All 22 people on board were killed, including the newly appointed coach for the Swedish national team in table tennis and former national coach of the German Table Tennis National Hans alser. None of the persons on the ground was killed, but were destroyed several cars and several houses were light fire damage from the burning aircraft.
The accident was caused by icing of the stabilizers, which meant that the aircraft during the extension of the flaps was unable to maneuver. The Swedish pilots did not know that the plane was vulnerable to this form of icing that occurs in northern Europe in the winter frequently.
Aircraft types of Linjeflyg
The dates indicate when the first aircraft in operation and the last one was taken out of service. The number indicates the total number of aircraft that were ever under a flight number of Linjeflyg in operation. Here also aircraft are included, the rent of Linjeflyg but were never painted in their colors. The passenger capacity is the capacity of the chair assembly, which was elected by Linjeflyg. If a range is specified, it means that there were different configurations.