The Hurum air disaster was an Aero Holland plane crash in Hurum southwest of Oslo, Norway when a Douglas DC-3 which was carrying Jewish children from Tunisia who were to transit through Norway while immigrating to Israel crashed as it was approaching Fornebu Airport on 20 November 1949, killing 34 people, including 27 children.

In 1949, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee signed an agreement with the Norwegian Ministry of Welfare under which 200 places in a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients was to be evacuated so as to be made available for Jewish children from North Africa in the process of immigrating to the newly independent state of Israel.

The other plane, with the registration PH-TFA, stopped at Brussels-Zaventem Airport to repair the radio before setting off for Oslo.

[1] As the DC-3 approached Oslo, the pilot encountered heavy fog, and lowered the plane while still in mountainous terrain.

The only survivor was a 12-year-old boy, Itzhak Allal, who later changed his name to El Al.[2][1] At midnight, Norwegian radio announced that contact with the plane had been lost and asked for the public's help in locating it.