Qualla: Wideroe Flight 710 https://qualla.com/wider-e-flight-710 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:35 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/8/s/wider-e-flight-710-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Wideroe Flight 710 https://qualla.com/wider-e-flight-710 Wideroe Flight 710: Introduction https://qualla.com/wider-e-flight-710/ Photo credit Rosino, CC BY-SA 2.0. At 20:29 on 6 May 1988, the ground proximity warning system aboard Wideroe Flight 710 flashed 'minimum.' One second later, the de Havilland Canada Dash 7 struck the western face of Torghatten, a 271-meter mountain that rises abruptly from an otherwise flat coastal landscape southwest of Bronnoy sound Airport. All thirty-six people on board -- thirty-three passengers, two pilots, and a flight attendant -- were killed instantly. The crash remains the deadliest aviation accident in Northern Norway and the deadliest ever involving the Dash 7 aircraft type.

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/8/s/wider-e-flight-710-wp/u78s-wideroe-flight-710-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wideroe Flight 710: The Mountain in the Fog https://qualla.com/wider-e-flight-710/ Photo credit Rosino, CC BY-SA 2.0. Torghatten is one of Northern Norway's most distinctive landmarks, famous for the natural tunnel that pierces its center. On the evening of 6 May, however, the mountain was wrapped in fog. Flight 710, registered as LN-WFN, had departed with a full load and made a stopover at Nams...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/8/s/wider-e-flight-710-wp/u78s-wideroe-flight-710-the-mountain-in-the-fog.mp3 0:06 2 full Wideroe Flight 710: A Descent Started Too Soon https://qualla.com/wider-e-flight-710/ Photo credit Rosino, CC BY-SA 2.0. The investigation that followed painted a picture of compounding procedural failures. At 20:24, the captain briefed the first officer that they would descend to altitude at Torghatten, using a name that appeared nowhere on the official navigation charts. The aircraft was supposed...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/8/s/wider-e-flight-710-wp/u78s-wideroe-flight-710-a-descent-started-too-soon.mp3 0:06 3 full Wideroe Flight 710: Systemic Failures https://qualla.com/wider-e-flight-710/ Photo credit Rosino, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Accident Investigation Board Norway found no mechanical fault with the aircraft. The pilots had full control when they flew into Torghatten, making it a textbook case of controlled flight into terrain. But the commission's findings reached far beyond that single cockpit. Inte...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/8/s/wider-e-flight-710-wp/u78s-wideroe-flight-710-systemic-failures.mp3 0:06 4 full Wideroe Flight 710: Grief, Press Ethics, and Safer Skies https://qualla.com/wider-e-flight-710/ Photo credit Rosino, CC BY-SA 2.0. Flight 710 was the second of four fatal Wideroe accidents between 1982 and 1993, each of which exposed similar operational shortcomings. The first, Flight 933, had already revealed a poor cockpit culture, but follow-up was derailed partly by a conspiracy theory about a fighter je...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/8/s/wider-e-flight-710-wp/u78s-wideroe-flight-710-grief-press-ethics-and-safer-skies.mp3 0:06 5 full