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On September 26th 1970, at 10.57 a.m., the ordinary Icelandair flight from Copenhagen via Bergen (Norway) to the Faroe Islands — a part of Denmark consisting of 18 mountain islands in the North Atlantic — crashed on top of the Island of Mikines, the westernmost of the Faroe Islands. The plane, an F-27 (Fokker Friendship) carried 30 passengers and a crew of four.
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Joensen, H.D., Joensen, H.D.: Aircraft accident in the Faroe Islands in 1970: Observations from a medical point of view, with special reference to spinal fractures. Aerospace Med. 43, 665 (1972)
Acknowledgements: The author is indebted to the Chief Medical Officer for the Faroe Islands, the Staff of the “Landssjukrahusid” (The National Hospital) in Torshavn, and the Danish National Board op Aviation for help collecting the information for the article.
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Djernes, M. (1980). Aircraft Crash on the Island of Mikines (Faroes), 1970. In: Frey, R., Safar, P. (eds) Types and Events of Disasters Organization in Various Disaster Situations. Disaster Medicine, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67093-0_41
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