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Finnair Flight 915 (AY915) was a scheduled flight by Finnair from Tokyo, Japan, over the North Pole to Helsinki, Finland, on 23 December 1987.[1]

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  1. 90 relations: Aeroflot Flight 902, Aircraft pilot, Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Anchorage, Alaska, Ballistic missile, Bering Strait, Ceiling (aeronautics), Christmas, Cockpit, Colonel, Conventional weapon, Cruise (aeronautics), Cruise missile, Doctor of Philosophy, Edgeøya, Explosive, Finavia, Finland, Finlandization, Finnair, Finnish Defence Forces, Finnish Government, Finnish Security and Intelligence Service, Finnish Transport Safety Agency, First officer (aviation), Flight attendant, Flight Safety Foundation, Fuel, Gangster, Garuda Indonesia, Helsingin Sanomat, Helsinki, Helsinki Airport, Ilta-Sanomat, Inertial navigation system, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, International Date Line, Itä-Savo, Japan, Kaleva (airplane), Kola Peninsula, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Korean Air Lines Flight 902, Lease, List of airliner shootdown incidents, Livery, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, McDonnell Douglas DC-10, Minister (government), ... Expand index (40 more) »

  2. 1987 disasters in Norway
  3. 1987 in Finland
  4. 1987 in international relations
  5. 1987 in the Soviet Union
  6. Accidents and incidents involving the McDonnell Douglas DC-10
  7. Aviation accidents and incidents in 1987
  8. Aviation accidents and incidents in Norway
  9. Aviation in Finland
  10. Aviation in the Arctic
  11. Aviation in the Soviet Union
  12. December 1987 events in Europe
  13. Edgeøya
  14. Finnair accidents and incidents
  15. Transport in Svalbard

Aeroflot Flight 902

Aeroflot Flight 902 was a passenger flight on a scheduled domestic service from Khabarovsk to Moscow, with intermediate stops at Irkutsk and Omsk, Russia.

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Aircraft pilot

An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Aleutian Islands

The Aleutian Islands (Unangam Tanangin, "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi aliat, or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands, or, before 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain of 14 main, larger volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones.

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Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage, officially the Municipality of Anchorage, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Ballistic missile

A ballistic missile (BM) is a type of missile that uses projectile motion to deliver warheads on a target.

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Bering Strait

The Bering Strait (Beringov proliv) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.

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Ceiling (aeronautics)

With respect to aircraft performance, a ceiling is the maximum density altitude an aircraft can reach under a set of conditions, as determined by its flight envelope.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.

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Cockpit

A cockpit or flight deck is the area, on the front part of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft.

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Colonel

Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col, or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Conventional weapon

The terms conventional weapons or conventional arms generally refer to weapons whose ability to damage comes from kinetic, incendiary, or explosive energy and exclude weapons of mass destruction (e.g. nuclear, biological, radiological and chemical weapons).

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Cruise (aeronautics)

Cruise is the phase of aircraft flight that starts when the aircraft levels off after a climb, until it begins to descend for landing.

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Cruise missile

A cruise missile is an unmanned self-propelled guided vehicle that sustains flight through aerodynamic lift for most of its flight path and whose primary mission is to place an ordnance or special payload on a target.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Edgeøya

Edgeøya, anglicised as Edge Island, is a Norwegian island located in southeast of the Svalbard archipelago; with an area of, it is the third-largest island in this archipelago.

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Explosive

An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.

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Finavia

Finavia Oyj, formerly the Finnish Civil Aviation Administration, is the public limited company responsible for maintaining and developing Finland's airport network.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Finlandization

Finlandization (suomettuminen; finlandisering; Finnlandisierung; soometumine; финляндизация, finlyandizatsiya) is the process by which one powerful country makes a smaller neighboring country refrain from opposing the former's foreign policy rules, while allowing it to keep its nominal independence and its own political system.

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Finnair

Finnair Oyj is the flag carrier and largest full-service legacy airline of Finland, with headquarters in Vantaa on the grounds of Helsinki Airport, its hub.

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Finnish Defence Forces

The Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) (Puolustusvoimat, Försvarsmakten) are the military of Finland.

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Finnish Government

The Finnish Government is the executive branch and cabinet of Finland, which directs the politics of Finland and is the main source of legislation proposed to the Parliament.

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Finnish Security and Intelligence Service

The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Suojelupoliisi), formerly the Finnish Security Police and Finnish Security Intelligence Service, is the security and intelligence agency of Finland in charge of national security, such as counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior.

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Finnish Transport Safety Agency

The Finnish Transport Safety Agency,, shortened to Trafi, was a Finnish government agency responsible for the promotion of safety in the Finnish transport system.

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First officer (aviation)

In aviation, the first officer (FO), also called co-pilot, is a pilot in addition to the captain, who is the legal commander.

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Flight attendant

A flight attendant, also known as a steward or stewardess; or air host or hostess, is a member of the aircrew aboard commercial flights, many business jets and some government aircraft.

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Flight Safety Foundation

The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit, international organization concerning research, education, advocacy, and communications in the field of aviation safety.

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Fuel

A fuel is any material that can be made to react with other substances so that it releases energy as thermal energy or to be used for work.

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Gangster

A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang.

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Garuda Indonesia

Garuda Indonesia is the flag carrier of Indonesia, headquartered at Soekarno–Hatta International Airport near Jakarta.

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Helsingin Sanomat

, abbreviated HS and colloquially known as Hesari, is the largest subscription newspaper in Finland and the Nordic countries, owned by Sanoma.

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Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.

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Helsinki Airport

Helsinki-Vantaa Airport (Helsinki-Vantaan lentoasema, Helsingfors-Vanda flygplats), or simply Helsinki Airport, is the main international airport serving Helsinki, the capital of Finland, as well as its surrounding metropolitan area, and the Uusimaa region in Finland.

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Ilta-Sanomat

the evening news is one of Finland's two prominent tabloid size evening newspapers and the second largest paper in the country.

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Inertial navigation system

An inertial navigation system (INS; also inertial guidance system, inertial instrument) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers), rotation sensors (gyroscopes) and a computer to continuously calculate by dead reckoning the position, the orientation, and the velocity (direction and speed of movement) of a moving object without the need for external references.

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The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union (and its successor state, the Russian Federation). Finnair Flight 915 and Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty are 1987 in the Soviet Union.

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International Date Line

The International Date Line (IDL) is the line between the South and North Poles that is the boundary between one calendar day and the next.

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Itä-Savo

Itä-Savo is a Finnish language daily newspaper published in Savonlinna, Finland.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Kaleva (airplane)

Kaleva was a civilian Junkers Ju 52 passenger and transport airplane belonging to the Finnish carrier Aero O/Y. Finnair Flight 915 and Kaleva (airplane) are Finnair accidents and incidents.

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Kola Peninsula

The Kola Peninsula (Kólʹskij poluóstrov, Kolsky poluostrov.; Куэлнэгк нёа̄ррк) is a peninsula located mostly in northwest Russia and partly in Finland and Norway.

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Korean Air Lines Flight 007

Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KE007/KAL007)The flight number KAL 007 was used by air traffic control, while the public flight booking system used KE 007 was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska.

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Korean Air Lines Flight 902

Korean Air Lines Flight 902 (KAL 902) was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from Paris to Seoul via Anchorage.

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Lease

A lease is a contractual arrangement calling for the user (referred to as the lessee) to pay the owner (referred to as the ''lessor'') for the use of an asset.

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List of airliner shootdown incidents

Airliner shootdown incidents have occurred since at least the 1930s, either intentionally or by accident.

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Livery

A livery is an identifying design, such as a uniform, ornament, symbol or insignia that designates ownership or affiliation, often found on an individual or vehicle.

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Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by Russian-backed forces with a Buk 9M38 surface-to-air missile on 17 July 2014, while flying over eastern Ukraine.

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McDonnell Douglas DC-10

The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is an American trijet wide-body aircraft manufactured by McDonnell Douglas.

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Minister (government)

A minister is a politician who heads a ministry, making and implementing decisions on policies in conjunction with the other ministers.

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Minister of Transport and Communications (Finland)

The Minister of Transport and Communications is one of the Finnish Government's ministerial positions.

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Missile

A missile is an airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight aided usually by a propellant, jet engine or rocket motor.

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Moomins

The Moomins (mumintrollen) are the central characters in a series of novels, short stories, picture books, and a comic strip by Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Schildts in Finland.

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Narita International Airport

, also known as Tokyo-Narita International Airport, formerly and originally known as, is one of two international airports serving the Greater Tokyo Area, the other one being Haneda Airport (HND).

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National Defence University (Finland)

The Finnish National Defence University (Maanpuolustuskorkeakoulu, MPKK, Försvarshögskolan) is a military university located in Helsinki.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.

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Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.

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Nelonen Media is a Finnish commercial broadcasting company owned by Sanoma Media Finland, which is a part of Sanoma group.

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Non-stop flight

A non-stop flight is a flight by an aircraft with no intermediate stops.

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North Pole

The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole, Terrestrial North Pole or 90th Parallel North, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.

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Novaya Zemlya

Novaya Zemlya (also,; Но́вая Земля́) is an archipelago in northern Russia.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.

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Parliament of Finland

The Parliament of Finland is the unicameral and supreme legislature of Finland, founded on 9 May 1906.

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Passenger

A passenger is a person who travels in a vehicle, but does not bear any responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle, and is not a steward.

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Pekka Vennamo

Pekka Veikko Vennamo (born 7 November 1944 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician and corporate executive.

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Pertti Salolainen

Pertti Edvard Salolainen CBE (born 19 October 1940 Helsinki) is a Finnish politician.

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Pilot in command

The pilot in command (PIC) of an aircraft is the person aboard an aircraft who is ultimately responsible for its operation and safety during flight.

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Professor

Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries.

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Range of a projectile

In physics, a projectile launched with specific initial conditions will have a range.

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S-125 Neva/Pechora

The S-125 Neva/Pechora (С-125 "Нева"/"Печора", NATO reporting name SA-3 Goa) is a Soviet surface-to-air missile system that was designed by Aleksei Isaev to complement the S-25 and S-75.

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Sanoma

Sanoma Corporation (formerly SanomaWSOY) is Finland's largest media group and a European education publisher.

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Savon Sanomat

Savon Sanomat is a Finnish language morning broadsheet newspaper published in Kuopio, Finland.

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Schedule

A schedule or a timetable, as a basic time-management tool, consists of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place, or of a sequence of events in the chronological order in which such things are intended to take place.

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Self-destruct

A self-destruct is a mechanism that can cause an object to destroy itself or render itself inoperable after a predefined set of circumstances has occurred.

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Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Stopwatch

A stopwatch is a timepiece designed to measure the amount of time that elapses between its activation and deactivation.

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Submarine

A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

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Surface-to-air missile

A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or the sea to destroy aircraft or other missiles.

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Svalbard

Svalbard, previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.

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Target practice

Target practice is a key part of both military training and shooting sports.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Trajectory

A trajectory or flight path is the path that an object with mass in motion follows through space as a function of time.

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Troposphere

The troposphere is the lowest layer of the atmosphere of Earth.

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Turku

Turku (Åbo) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland.

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Turun Sanomat

Turun Sanomat is the leading regional newspaper of the region of Southwest Finland.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Vantaa

Vantaa (Vanda) is a city in Finland.

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Yle

Yleisradio Oy (Rundradion Ab), abbreviated as Yle (formerly styled in all uppercase until 2012), translated into English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founded in 1926.

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See also

1987 disasters in Norway

  • Finnair Flight 915

1987 in Finland

1987 in international relations

1987 in the Soviet Union

Accidents and incidents involving the McDonnell Douglas DC-10

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1987

Aviation accidents and incidents in Norway

Aviation in Finland

Aviation in the Arctic

Aviation in the Soviet Union

December 1987 events in Europe

Edgeøya

Finnair accidents and incidents

Transport in Svalbard

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnair_Flight_915

Also known as Finnair flight AY 915.

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