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The Night a Misplaced Beacon Turned Sweden's Skies Deadly
The Night a Misplaced Beacon Turned Sweden's Skies Deadly
A single misplaced light over southern Sweden lured a perfectly functioning Convair into a fatal descent on the night of 20 November 1964, killing 31 of 43 aboard - and the system that allowed it had no single person to blame. How did a strobe beacon that wasn’t on any chart, positioned 110 meters off the runway centerline and unknown to many pilots, become the difference between a safe approach and disaster?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events on Linjeflyg Flight 267V from departure to impact, outline the navigation…
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