Flyvarjávri is a small lake situated in Kautokeino Municipality in Finnmark, Norway, about 13 kilometers (8.1 mi) south of the village of Kautokeino. The lake is right next to the E45.
A literal translatation of Flyvarjávri from the Sámi language is "the plane lake". It got this name a German Focke-Wulf Fw 189 A "Uho" reconnaissance aircraft crashed there on 15 October 1944.[1] Eyewitnesses observed the plane flying from the south, low over of Siebe,[2] a village 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) south of Flyvárjavri. The plane went through the ice during the emergency landing, and the German occupation forces machine-gunned the plane before blowing it up when it became clear that it could not be salvaged. There was a crew of two in the plane and both survived.[3] The pilot may have been Lt. Friedrich Drexel.[1] In 1993, the wreck was removed from the accident site and sent to England. Where the plane came from and was on its way to is not known.
References
edit- 1 2 Sørensen, Kjell; Moe, Morten (2022-08-29). "Focke-Wulf Fw 189A "Uhu" Finnmarksvidda". Flyvrak.info.
- ↑ Hætta, Odd Mathis (2016). Samebygder på Finnmarksvidda [Sami villages on Finnmarksvidda] (in Norwegian). Alta: Odd Mathis Hætta. pp. 254–255. ISBN 978-82-690262-0-7.
- ↑ Klemetsen, Johan Mathis (2022-08-29) [1997]. "Nasjonalbiblioteket". www.nb.no (in Norwegian). p. 71. Retrieved 2022-08-29.