The Havørn Accident (Norwegian: Havørn-ulykken) was a German Junkers Ju 52 aircraft's controlled flight into terrain at the mountain Lihesten in Hyllestad, Norway on 16 June 1936 at 07:00.

A second party sent two days later, coordinated by Bernt Balchen and led by Boye Schlytter and Henning Tønsberg, succeeded in recovering the remaining bodies.

[5][6] The three passengers were Inspector Sven Svensen Løgit, Consul Wilhelm Andreas Mejdell Dall[7] and journalist Harald Wigum of Bergens Tidende.

[8] The weather report, which had been delivered orally by meteorologist-on-duty of the Forecasting Division of Western Norway at the airport,[9] stated wind from southeast at 5 to 15 kilometers per hour (3 to 9 mph), overcast, and clouds down to 200 meters (700 ft), and possibly lower in some places.

[3] The last radio contact between the aircraft and the airport in Bergen was at 06:54, when Hegle reported clouds at 1,000 to 1,500 meters (3,000 to 5,000 ft) elevation and between 4 and 10 kilometers (2 and 6 mi) visibility.

The aircraft had followed a parallel, but more eastern, course and had hit Lihesten, a mountain rising up from Lifjorden, at 600 meters (2,000 ft) above mean sea level.

A party of experienced mountaineers, who had many times succeeded at getting sheep down from rock shelves, attempted to reach the wreck, which was located on a shelf 100 meters (300 ft) above the foot.

Later, the ship Mira, belonging to Bergen Steamship Company (BSD), arrived with two doctors, two nurses, material from the Red Cross, specialist police officers, fire fighters, representatives from the airline and Norway Post, and journalists.

[4] The sister aircraft Najaden arrived later in the afternoon with relatives of the dead and journalists; its main objective was to search for survivors, but there was no possibility for it to land on the mountain and so could not help with the salvaging.

Later a Widerøe aircraft arrived as well, which transported DNL's technical director Bernt Balchen, Captain Eckhoff, who worked for the aviation authorities, and Gjermundson from the insurance company.

[9] The locals were determined to reach the aircraft: Magnus Kolgrov, along with Robert and Bernt Porten, who along with two others descended a further 30 meters (100 ft).

[12] In a letter to the editor in Aftenposten on 17 June, submitted by Robert M. Steen, it was suggested that reaching the ledge would be a suitable challenge for the mountaineering association Norsk Tindeklub.

The club sent Boye Schlytter and Henning Tønsberg to Bergen, where they joined forces with police officer Hermann Heggenes and photographer and firefighter Alf Adriansen.

Bernt Porten climbed halfway up at least a dozen times, taking water up and bringing down bodies wrapped in tarpaulin.

[16] In a Council of State on 21 August, Schlytter, Tønsberg, Robert Porten and Heggenes were awarded the Medal for Heroic Deeds.

[18] In early 1937, news surfaced that the widow and father of Erik Storm filed a lawsuit against the Norwegian Air Lines.

[19] The family had received 45,000 kr of insurance money, but reportedly wanted more, and also desired to have the airline take the responsibility for the accident.