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Briefs from Svalbardposten for the week of Aug. 30, 2016
‘It’s just torn earth:’ 15 bags of mail, two damaged ‘black boxes’ found at site where mail flight crashed
ALERT: Mail plane crashes between Olso and Tromsø; pilots presumed dead; Svalbard flight cancelled today; unknown if local mail aboard

A postal flight from Oslo to Tromsø crashed sometime near midnight Friday (Jan. 8) just across the Swedish border near Akkajaure on the way from Oslo to Tromso.
The 42-year-old pilot from Spain and 34-year-old co-pilot from France are missing and presumed dead.
The mail flight to Svalbard was cancelled Friday.
Briefs from Svalbardposten for the week of Sept. 22, 2015
Briefs from Svalbardposten for the week of June 9, 2015

Stranded Russian plane to be removed by ship in August
A Russian plane carrying tourists that crash landed near the Barneo ice camp at 89 degrees latitude north in early April remains stranded there and won’t be removed until it is transported aboard an icebreaker in August, according the company chartering the flight.