The Swedish Accident Investigation Authority (, SHK), formerly the Swedish Accident Investigation Board in English, is a
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government agency
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tasked with investigating all types of serious civil or military accidents that can occur on land, on the sea or in the air. Incidents are also to be investigated if there was a serious risk of an accident. Its headquarters are in
Stockholm
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Directors General
Directors General:Olof Forssberg
Erik Olof Forssberg (28 July 1937 – 11 March 2023) was a Swedish jurist and civil servant. He served as Director General of the Swedish Accident Investigation Authority from 1987 to 1997.
Early life
Forssberg was born on 28 July 1937 in in Hud ...
*1997-05-30 – 1997-06-08: S-E Sigfridsson (acting)
*1997-06-09 – 2002-01-06: Ann-Louise Eksborg
*2002-01-07 – 2004-01-31: Lena Svenaeus
*2004-02-01 – 2004-05-31: Carin Hellner (acting)
*2004-04-01 – 2011-04-17: Åsa Kastman Heuman
*2011-04-18 – 2020-05-01: Hans Ytterberg
*2020-05-01 – present: John Ahlberk
Notable investigations
* Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751
Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 751 was a regularly scheduled Scandinavian Airlines passenger flight from Stockholm, Sweden, to Warsaw, Poland, via Copenhagen, Denmark. On 27 December 1991, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81 operating the flight, r ...
(1991)
* M/S ''Estonia'' (1994)
* Falsterbo Swedish Coast Guard C-212 crash (2006)
* MV ''Finnbirch'' (2006)
* Norwegian Air Force C-130 crash (2012)
* Saltsjöbanan train crash (2013)
* West Air Sweden Flight 294
West Air Sweden Flight 294 was a cargo flight of a Bombardier CRJ200 from Oslo to Tromsø, Norway, that crashed on 8 January 2016. A malfunction in one of the inertial reference units had produced erroneous altitude indications on one of the inst ...
(2016)
* Skydive Umeå Gippsland GA8 Airvan crash
Parachuting and skydiving are methods of descending from a high point in an atmosphere to the ground or ocean surface with the aid of gravity, involving the control of speed during the descent using a parachute or multiple parachutes.
For hu ...
(2019)
See also
* Swedish Civil Aviation Administration
The Swedish Civil Aviation Administration () is a Swedish government agency which regulated and oversaw all aspects of aviation in Sweden until 2005. The regulatory division was called (Civil Aviation Authority).
The Air Navigation Service Pr ...
* Swedish Maritime Administration
The Swedish Maritime Administration () is the government agency in Sweden which provides services to the transport sector by keeping the sea lanes open and safe. The agency is to a certain degree financed through fees levied on commercial shippin ...
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Rail accident investigators
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Transport organizations based in Sweden
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1978 establishments in Sweden
Organizations based in Stockholm
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