[1][2] It was heard over Skagafjörður and seen flying low over the water towards Siglunes [is], the northernmost point between the Siglufjörður and Héðinsfjörður fjords on the northern coast,[3][4][5] but failed to arrive.

The weather was very foggy and searchers were unable to locate the wreckage until next morning, when it was spotted from one of three search aeroplanes on the side of Hestfjall, the mountain to the west of Héðinsfjörður.

[1][2][3][4] The pilot was presumed to have been flying visually over the water, as was normal at the time since there were few navigational aids on the route,[2] and to have become aware of the mountain only at the last moment.

[6] The bodies were taken by boat to Ólafsfjörður and from there, draped in the Icelandic flag, to Akureyri, where a dockside ceremony on their arrival on the evening of 30 May was attended by a crowd of about 4,000 people,[2] and they were then transported to Akureyrarkirkja.

[7] In 1997, fifty years after the accident, the Súlur Kiwanis Club of Ólafsfjörður erected a memorial below the crash site in the form of a two-metre Celtic cross.