Swedish Accident Investigation Authority

Swedish Accident Investigation Authority
Statens haverikommission
Agency overview
Formed	1 July 1978
Headquarters	Sveavägen 151, Stockholm, Sweden
Agency executive	Hans Ytterberg, Director General;
Parent department	Ministry of Defence
Key document	SFS 2007:860;
Website	www.havkom.se/en/

The Swedish Accident Investigation Authority (Swedish: Statens haverikommission, SHK), formerly the Swedish Accident Investigation Board in English, is a Swedish government agency tasked with investigating all types of serious civil or military accidents that can occur on land, on the sea or in the air. Incidents are also to be investigated if there was a serious risk of an accident.^[2] Its headquarters are in Stockholm.^[3]

Directors General

Directors General:^[1]

1978-07-01 – 1987-06-30: Göran Steen
1987-07-01 – 1997-05-29: Olof Forssberg
1997-05-30 – 1997-06-08: S-E Sigfridsson (acting)
1997-06-09 – 2002-01-06: Ann-Louise Eksborg
2002-01-07 – 2004-01-31: Lena Svenaeus
2004-02-01 – 2004-05-31: Carin Hellner (acting)
2004-04-01 – 2011-04-17: Åsa Kastman Heuman
2011-04-18 – 2020-05-01: Hans Ytterberg
2020-05-01 – present: John Ahlberk

Notable investigations

Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751 (1991)
M/S Estonia (1994)
Falsterbo Swedish Coast Guard C-212 crash (2006)
MV Finnbirch (2006)
Norwegian Air Force C-130 crash (2012)
Saltsjöbanan train crash (2013)
West Air Sweden Flight 294 (2016)
Skydive Umeå Gippsland GA8 Airvan crash (2019)

References

^ ^a ^b "Historik" [History] (in Swedish). Swedish Accident Investigation Authority. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
^ Swedish Accident Investigation Board website
^ "Contact Us Archived 2012-04-06 at the Wayback Machine." Swedish Accident Investigation Authority. Retrieved on 4 May 2013. "Visitors: Sveavägen 151" - Map