Jan Fredrik Wiborg

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Jan Fredrik Wiborg (October 9, 1944 - 21 June 1994) was a Norwegian civil engineer.[1]

During the early 1990s, he criticised plans for building Oslo's new airport at Gardermoen. Parliament (Stortinget) had originally decided to build the new airport at Hurum, but weather surveys claimed this location would only be operable 80 % of the time. Wiborg claimed the information was falsified and that parliament were deliberately misled by government officials.

Wiborg died on June 21, 1994 after falling from a hotel window in Copenhagen, and crucial documents about the case disappeared. Circumstances about his death was never fully cleared. Journalists from the newspaper Aftenposten were awarded the prestigious SKUP prize in 1999 for their investigation of the case.[2][3]

During 2000 the Constitutional Committee of Parliament held a public hearing about the alleged foul play during the airport planning process. An official report was released in 2001.[4][5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Stortinget. Rapport til Stortinget / Hvem var Jan Fredrik Wiborg? (Norwegian). Retrieved on 2008-05-17.
  2. ^ The Norwegian Institute of Journalism. SKUP Prize 1999 (Norwegian). Retrieved on 2007-02-25.
  3. ^ Pål Enghaug et al.. Wiborg and the Gardermoen weather report (Norwegian). Retrieved on 2007-02-25.
  4. ^ whistleblowers.dk. The political plotting of an airport. Retrieved on 2007-02-25.
  5. ^ California Aviation Alliance. Norwegian airport probe says court of impeachment must be considered. Retrieved on 2007-02-25.