Holta
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Holta is a small farming village in Strand Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The farm is situated on the northern hills overlooking the lake Bjørheimsvatnet. The village is approximately northeast of the village of Tau and about south of the village of Fiskå. The city of Stavanger lies about southwest of Holta (via the Ryfylke Tunnel that goes under a large fjord). On 9 August 1961, the Holtaheia Accident took place as a Vickers VC.1 Viking passenger aeroplane, G-AHPM operated by Cunard Eagle Airways, transporting schoolboys from The Archbishop Lanfranc School in Thornton Heath, London, crashed into the mountainside above the farm (Holtaheia). A total of 34 students1, two teachers, and three crew members were killed.
Holta is a small farming village in Strand Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The farm is situated on the northern hills overlooking the lake Bjørheimsvatnet. The village is approximately northeast of the village of Tau and about south of the village of Fiskå. The city of Stavanger lies about southwest of Holta (via the Ryfylke Tunnel that goes under a large fjord). On 9 August 1961, the Holtaheia Accident took place as a Vickers VC.1 Viking passenger aeroplane, G-AHPM operated by Cunard Eagle Airways, transporting schoolboys from The Archbishop Lanfranc School in Thornton Heath, London, crashed into the mountainside above the farm (Holtaheia). A total of 34 students, two teachers, and three crew members were killed. ==References==
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