Date:	Sunday 30 August 1970
Time:
Type:	Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander
Owner/operator:	Dutch Continental Airways
Registration:	PH-NVA
MSN:	111
Year of manufacture:	1969
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 10
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Haringvreter -   Netherlands
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:	Midden Zeeland Airfield (EHMZ)
Destination airport:	Midden Zeeland Airfield (EHMZ)

Narrative:
The aircraft inadvertently entered a fog bank. The pilot, who did not have an instrument rating, lost spatial awareness. When the Islander broke the fog bank it was flying in a 45 degree bank angle. It contacted trees and crashed on the Haringvreter island in a lake called Veerse Meer.

Aircraft accident inquiry in the Netherlands / A.A. van Wijk
Airnieuws 335
BAAA-ACRO

photo (c) L. Nijs; Haringvreter; September 1970

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