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2 unusual facts about Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801


Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801

On 31 August, Minister of Justice Grete Faremo visited the Russian settlements as a representative from the Government of Norway.

Governor Ann-Kristin Olsen traveled to Barentsburg on 30 August to inform the communities about the accident, and distributed ample written information in Russian about the then-known details about the crash.


Arktikugol

On 29 August 1996, the Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 en route to the Svalbard Airport, Longyear, with Arktikugol workers and their relatives aboard crashed into the mountain Operafjellet on Spitsbergen killing all 141 people on board.


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