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Flugfélag Íslands

About the confusion about which one of the two or three

Flugfélag Íslands airlines this was then according to the Icelandic Air Museum

It was founded on 3 June 1937 as Flugfélag Akureyrar

On 13 March 1940 its name was changed to Flugfélag Íslands, the same company that operated the plane in the crash.

In 1973 Flugfélag Íslands and Loftleiðir merged under the name Flugleiðir hf.
In 1997 Flugleiðir's domestic part merged with Flugfélag Norðurlands under the name Flugfélag Íslands
In May 2017 the airline was rebranded under the name Air Iceland Connect.

What is now Icelandair was the international part of the company Flugleiðir hf., basically just the english translation of the name. The domestic part was called Flugleiðir. They had the same logo 1 2 -- Dammit_steve (talk) 22:41, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Recent move

WP:COMMONNAME issue here; the crash is generally referred to in terms of the location, Héðinsfjörður. Note the name of the corresponding Icelandic article, Flugslysið í Héðinsfirði. Alvaldi suggests that "plane crash" is more accurate than "air crash"; I think the move should be substantially reverted and the article moved to 1947 Héðinsfjörður plane crash. Note also the similar title 1986 Ljósufjöll air crash. Yngvadottir (talk) 02:52, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply

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I agree, the crash is primarly referred to in sources to the Héðinsfjörður location, not the airline or the plane type. 1947 Héðinsfjörður plane crash is probably the best descriptive English title for the crash. Alvaldi (talk) 10:45, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've discussed with Alvaldi and I proposed, that for this page + another one, to keep the title name with the original format but replacing air crash with plane crash, then, to have above the infobox, the original title + the title that I've put.

Ex: On the article of the Smolensk air disaster, we can see that both the common name and the flight name.

Does that sound ok to you? Aviationwikiflight (talk) 15:42, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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ENGVAR issue, so I'm fine with "plane crash".) Yngvadottir (talk) 07:48, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply

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