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Thought maybe someone on this forum could cast some light on this new "old" thread. All taken from
www.nrk.no
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New focus on 20-year old aircrash
A new tv documentary reveals new information not previously known to the public on the "Gamvik-accident" twenty years ago.
Publisert 19.11.2002 14:05
In March 1982 a Norwegian civil airplane with 15 people crashed outside of the coast of Finnmark in Northern Norway, not far from the Soviet border.
The crew and the passangers were all killed.
Three official inquiries have all stated that there were no other air traffic in the area at the time of the accident.
In a tv documentary tonight on Norwegian National Broadcasting a number of witnesses show that this conclusion is wrong.
In the programme, both locals and people from the Norwegian defense tell the same story. Two defense intelligence reports tell the same. They have all observed British fighters in the area at the time of the accident. Two British Harrier fighters were observed. One of the fighters was followed by several witnesses from where the sivil airplane disappeared and all the way to it's base in Tromsų. A Norwegian pilot observed a Harrier landing in Tromsų with signs of damage.
These observations mean that the Harriers crossed a forbidden zone. During the cold war military aircrafts where not allowed to fly East of 24 degrees longitude, not to provoke the Soviet Union.
In March 1982 the Nato exercise Alloy Express took place in Northern Norway. The RAF exercised tactical flyoperations.
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