Holta
For the former city in Ukraine, see Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast.
A cross marking the crash site near Holta. The plaque reads "In memory of those who died here 9 August 1961. 34 English school boys, their two teachers and the three crew members. Erected by friends in Rogaland".
Holta is a farm in Strand municipality in Rogaland, Norway. The farm is situated on the northern hills overlooking Bjørheimsvatn Lake. It is approximately 10 kilometres from Stavanger, with a 14-kilometre journey by sea.
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). 34 students, two teachers and three crew members were killed.