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A Mountain That Wasn't on the Map: The Crash of Siv
A Mountain That Wasn't on the Map: The Crash of Siv
Two hundred and fifty feet separated the last radar return from the summit of Sweden's highest mountain - roughly the height of a twenty-story building - and the Norwegian C-130J named Siv flew straight into it as if the peak simply did not exist. How could five highly experienced aircrew on a routine fifty-minute transit, flying straight and level with no alarms, descend into Kebnekaise when every system that should have warned them stayed silent?
In this episode, we follow the flight of Siv on March 15, 2012, its planned route from Evenes…
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