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Missing Norwegian military plane feared crashed

15 March 2012 23:56 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. A Norwegian military transport plane with five Norwegians on board, which went missing on Thursday, was feared to have crashed into the mountains in northern Sweden, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

The Hercules C130-J, which was reportedly missing on Thursday afternoon when it was en route from an airport in northern Norway to Kiruna airport in northern Sweden, had probably crashed, reported the Norwegian-language newspaper VG, quoting Major Ivar Moen, a press officer for the annual military exercise coded Cold Response.

The ill-fated aircraft, which was participating in the exercise, did not land at the Kiruna airport in Sweden, as expected, the Rescue Coordination Center of North Norway was quoted as saying.

The rescue center got the message from the Swedish air traffic service at 15:50 local time (1450 GMT) that the aircraft had not arrived as scheduled.

Contact with the transport plane was lost 80 km west of Kiruna, said John Espen Lien, a Norwegian military spokesman.

The aircraft took off from the Evenes airport in northern Norway at 13:41 local time (1241 GMT) to pick up materials and personnel from the Kiruna airport.

Two aircraft and four helicopters have been sent to search for the missing Hercules plane. But a Sea King helicopter had to return due to the bad weather condition.

The Swedish Rescue Services was also engaged in the search and rescue operation.

A weak distress signal had been picked up by a Danish helicopter from the Kebnekaise mountain, said the Swedish news agency TT.

Norwegian Defense Minister Espen Barth Eide said that he was very worried about the serious situation in which five Norwegian military officers were missing.

The three-week annual winter exercise, which began March 12 in northern Norway, involves a total of 16,000 troops from 15 NATO nations and is aimed to sharpen the skills needed to deal with high-intensity emergency operations under winter conditions.

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