Per Egil Rygg

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Per Egil Rygg (born February 5, 1959 in Bergen ; † October 31, 2016 in Lørenskog ) was a Norwegian major general and from 2014 commander in chief of the Norwegian Air Force .

Life

After finishing school, Rygg completed training as a pilot from 1980 to 1983 at a civil flight school in the USA . On October 27, 1983, he joined the Norwegian Armed Forces and completed the Euro NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) from 1984 to 1985 at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls , Texas . Back in Norway he was retrained on the General Dynamics F-16 and transferred to the 334th Skvadron in Bodø at the local airport . In 1987 he completed the officer training course at the Norwegian Officers School.

From 1993 Rygge took over the duties of a flight safety officer in Bodø and took over command of the 331st Squadron from 1996 to 1997, also in Bodø. In the staff of the Norwegian Air Force he was employed as a contact person for flight safety issues from 1997 to 1998, in the same year he completed his staff officer course and was then transferred back to Bodø, where he became group commander . During this command he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

In 2002 he moved to Combined Air Operations Center 3 in Reitan near Bodø as head of the interception missions flown by the squadrons and finally promoted to colonel . From 2005 to 2007 Rygg was a Norwegian liaison officer in the Joint Force Command in Lisbon , Portugal . From 2007 to 2012 he took over the 132nd Squadron in Bodø and was promoted to Brigadier General. Thereafter, until his appointment as Chief of the Air Force, Rygg was responsible for all flight plans of Air Force and as an Inspector of Air Operations at the airport Rygge stationed.

On April 11, 2014, he was appointed major general.

Accident at the Kebnekaise

After the accident of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules of the Norwegian Air Force on March 15, 2012 on the Swedish mountain Kebnekaise , Rygg was commissioned to head the investigation committee to determine the causes of the accident.

Private

Per Rygg was married and had four children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ vg.no , accessed on April 7, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Per Egil Rygg - Curriculum Vitae. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Norwegian Armed Forces, archived from the original on April 16, 2016 ; accessed on April 16, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / forsvaret.no
personal data
SURNAME Rygg, Per Egil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian general
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountains
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 2016
Place of death Lørenskog